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title: He sat erect on his throne, and held out the goblet of wine with a s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He sat erect on his throne, and held out the goblet of wine with a steady hand, and bent on Theseus a frown of kingly severity; for, after all, he had too noble a spirit to murder even a treacherous enemy with a deceitful smile upon his face. Who acts: man, kingly severity. A sentence of «Tanglewood
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 47

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He sat erect on his throne, and held out the goblet of wine with a steady hand, and bent on Theseus a frown of kingly severity; for, after all, he had too noble a spirit to murder even a treacherous enemy with a deceitful smile upon his face.

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**Who acts:** man, kingly severity · **What happens:** sit, hold out, bend, have, murder, frown · **To what, where:** throne, goblet, frown, Theseus, noble spirit, treacherous enemy

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, kingly severity), 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:pg976:4:47
# text = He sat erect on his throne, and held out the goblet of wine with a steady hand, and bent on Theseus a frown of kingly severity; for, after all, he had too noble a spirit to murder even a treacherous enemy with a deceitful smile upon his face.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	frown	frown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	severity	severity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	too	too	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	murder	murder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	deceitful	deceitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | man |  |  | man's throne |  | erect *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |
| 2 | **hold out** | participle | man *not said here* | the goblet of wine with a steady hand |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme |
| 3 | **bend** | participle | man *not said here* | a frown of kingly severity |  | Theseus |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent frown=Theme on theseus=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | man | a noble spirit |  |  |  | for all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |
| 5 | **murder** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a treacherous enemy |  |  |  | with a deceitful smile upon man's face | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient with smile=Instrument |
| 6 | **frown** |  | kingly severity |  |  |  |  |  | nom frown «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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