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title: "My child," said she, "did you taste any food while you were in King… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My child," said she, "did you taste any food while you were in King Pluto's palace?" Who acts: child, mother, 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 53

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"My child," said she, "did you taste any food while you were in King Pluto's palace?"

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**Who acts:** child, mother, you · **What happens:** say, taste, be · **To what, where:** food, palace · **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 (child, mother, 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:pg976:24:53
# text = "My child," said she, "did you taste any food while you were in King Pluto's palace?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:desc	_	_
20	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | My child |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **taste** *in a quote* | past · do-support | mother | any food |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  | Pluto  King's palace |  |  | tree rules |

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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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