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title: And little Proserpina, when she turned about, and beheld this great… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And little Proserpina, when she turned about, and beheld this great king standing in his splendid hall, and looking so grand, and so melancholy, and so lonesome, was smitten with a kind of pity. Who acts: little Proserpina, great king. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pom
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 81

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And little Proserpina, when she turned about, and beheld this great king standing in his splendid hall, and looking so grand, and so melancholy, and so lonesome, was smitten with a kind of pity.

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**Who acts:** little Proserpina, great king · **What happens:** turn about, behold, stand, look, smite · **To what, where:** great king, splendid hall, lonesome

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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 (little Proserpina, great king), 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:pg976:23:81
# text = And little Proserpina, when she turned about, and beheld this great king standing in his splendid hall, and looking so grand, and so melancholy, and so lonesome, was smitten with a kind of pity.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	lonesome	lonesome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn about** | past | little Proserpina |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **behold** | participle | little Proserpina *not said here* | this great king |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | this great king *not said here* |  |  | King's splendid hall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | this great king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **smite** | past · passive |  | lonesome |  |  |  | with a kind of pity | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with kind=Instrument |

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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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