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title: Nevertheless, since there was no better to be had, he brought this d… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, since there was no better to be had, he brought this dry, old withered pomegranate home to the palace, put it on a magnificent golden salver, and carried it up to Proserpina. Who acts: King, this. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 97

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Nevertheless, since there was no better to be had, he brought this dry, old withered pomegranate home to the palace, put it on a magnificent golden salver, and carried it up to Proserpina.

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**Who acts:** King, this · **What happens:** not be, have, bring, wither, pomegranate, put · **To what, where:** palace, pomegranate, magnificent golden salver, Proserpina

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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 (King, this), 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:pg976:23:97
# text = Nevertheless, since there was no better to be had, he brought this dry, old withered pomegranate home to the palace, put it on a magnificent golden salver, and carried it up to Proserpina.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
15	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	salver	salver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | good, nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **bring** | past | King |  |  | the palace |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to palace=Destination |
| 4 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **pomegranate** |  | this |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | King *not said here* | pomegranate |  | a magnificent golden salver |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on salver=Destination |
| 7 | **carry up** | past | King *not said here* | pomegranate | Proserpina |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to proserpina=Destination |

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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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