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title: Entering the presence chamber, he stood at the foot of the throne, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Entering the presence chamber, he stood at the foot of the throne, and made a low obeisance. Who acts: Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 35

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Entering the presence chamber, he stood at the foot of the throne, and made a low obeisance.

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**Who acts:** Jason · **What happens:** enter, stand, make · **To what, where:** presence chamber, foot, low obeisance

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (Jason), 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:pg976:29:35
# text = Entering the presence chamber, he stood at the foot of the throne, and made a low obeisance.
1	Entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | the presence chamber |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Jason |  |  | the foot of the throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | Jason *not said here* | a low obeisance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product |

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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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