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title: Just as this fatal deed was done, the door of the apartment opened,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as this fatal deed was done, the door of the apartment opened, and in came King Pluto, followed by Quicksilver, who had been urging him to let his little prisoner go. Who acts: door, Quicksilver, little prisoner. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., p
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 11

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Just as this fatal deed was done, the door of the apartment opened, and in came King Pluto, followed by Quicksilver, who had been urging him to let his little prisoner go.

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**Who acts:** door, Quicksilver, little prisoner · **What happens:** do, open, come, follow, urge, let · **To what, where:** fatal deed, Pluto, little prisoner

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, Quicksilver, little prisoner), 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:pg976:24:11
# text = Just as this fatal deed was done, the door of the apartment opened, and in came King Pluto, followed by Quicksilver, who had been urging him to let his little prisoner go.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	urging	urge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | this fatal deed |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **open** | past | the door of the apartment |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the door of the apartment *not said here* | Pluto  King |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pluto=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | participle | the door of the apartment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Quicksilver | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by quicksilver=Location |
| 5 | **urge** | past · perfect · progressive | Quicksilver |  | Pluto |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 6 | **let** | to-infinitive | Quicksilver *not said here* | door's little prisoner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | infinitive | door's little prisoner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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