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title: "Pray, nurse," the queen kept saying, "how is it that you make the c… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Pray, nurse," the queen kept saying, "how is it that you make the child thrive so?" Who acts: queen, Pray, you, child. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 7

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"Pray, nurse," the queen kept saying, "how is it that you make the child thrive so?"

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**Who acts:** queen, Pray, you, child · **What happens:** keep, say, be, make, thrive · **To what, where:** Pray, nurse, child · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, Pray, you, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg976:23:7
# text = "Pray, nurse," the queen kept saying, "how is it that you make the child thrive so?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	expl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	thrive	thrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the queen | Pray and nurse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | gerund | Pray and nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | nurse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present | you | the child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **thrive** *in a quote* | infinitive | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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