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title: "Do you, indeed, my dear child?" cried Pluto, bending his dark face… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do you, indeed, my dear child?" cried Pluto, bending his dark face down to kiss her; but Proserpina shrank away from the kiss, for, though his features were noble, they were very dusky and grim. " Who acts: Pluto, Proserpina, features. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Po
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 84

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"Do you, indeed, my dear child?" cried Pluto, bending his dark face down to kiss her; but Proserpina shrank away from the kiss, for, though his features were noble, they were very dusky and grim. "

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**Who acts:** Pluto, Proserpina, features · **What happens:** do, cry, bend, kiss, shrink away, be · **To what, where:** you, dark face, 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 (Pluto, Proserpina, features), 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:pg976:23:84
# text = "Do you, indeed, my dear child?" cried Pluto, bending his dark face down to kiss her; but Proserpina shrank away from the kiss, for, though his features were noble, they were very dusky and grim. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	very	very	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  | you |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Pluto |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bend** | gerund | Pluto *not said here* | Pluto's dark face |  |  |  | down *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent face=Material |
| 4 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | Pluto *not said here* | child |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **shrink away** | past | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | from the kiss; away *property* | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from kiss=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | past | Pluto's features |  |  |  |  | noble *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | features *= feature* |  |  |  |  | dusky *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | features *= feature* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **feature** |  | Pluto |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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