--- title: This was the more creditable to Proserpina, inasmuch as King Pluto h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: This was the more creditable to Proserpina, inasmuch as King Pluto had caused her to be tempted day by day, with all manner of sweetmeats, and richly-preserved fruits, and delicacies of every sort, such as young people are generally most fond of. Who acts: This, King. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:23:55 # text = This was the more creditable to Proserpina, inasmuch as King Pluto had caused her to be tempted day by day, with all manner of sweetmeats, and richly-preserved fruits, and delicacies of every sort, such as young people are generally most fond of. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 creditable creditable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Proserpina Proserpina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 inasmuch inasmuch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 17 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 tempted tempt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 sweetmeats sweetmeat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 richly richly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 preserved preserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 delicacies delicacy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 39 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 41 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 44 case _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ _ 43 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 45 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 46 generally generally ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 47 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 48 amod _ _ 48 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | This | | Proserpina | | | creditable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | past · perfect | King | inasmuch *not said here* | Proserpina | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition she=Patient | | 3 | **tempt** | to-infinitive · passive | King *not said here* | | | | day | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 4 | **preserve** | participle | | | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | such young people; fond, generally *property* | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/56/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/)