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title: "Then open your arms, dear mother," cried a well-known voice, "and t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Then open your arms, dear mother," cried a well-known voice, "and take your little daughter into them." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 48

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"Then open your arms, dear mother," cried a well-known voice, "and take your little daughter into them."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** open, cry, know, take · **To what, where:** arms, known voice, little daughter · **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 (you), 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:pg976:24:48
# text = "Then open your arms, dear mother," cried a well-known voice, "and take your little daughter into them."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | your arms and dear mother |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | a known voice |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your little daughter |  |  |  | into arms *= arm* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme into they=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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