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description: Now, although you may not have supposed it, Proserpina found it impossible to take leave of poor King Pluto without some regrets, and a good deal of compunction for not telling him about the pomegranate. Who acts: Proserpina, good deal. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Po
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 28

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Now, although you may not have supposed it, Proserpina found it impossible to take leave of poor King Pluto without some regrets, and a good deal of compunction for not telling him about the pomegranate.

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**Who acts:** Proserpina, good deal · **What happens:** not suppose, find, take, not tell, deal · **To what, where:** you, liberty, leave, Pluto, compunction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Proserpina, good deal), 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:pg976:24:28
# text = Now, although you may not have supposed it, Proserpina found it impossible to take leave of poor King Pluto without some regrets, and a good deal of compunction for not telling him about the pomegranate.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	regrets	regret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	compunction	compunction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suppose** | may · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme it=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | past | Proserpina | liberty |  |  | now | impossible *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | leave of poor Pluto  King |  |  |  | without some regrets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a good deal of compunction |  | Pluto |  |  | about the pomegranate | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about pomegranate=Topic |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | compunction |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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