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title: He put on his clothes as quickly as he could (not forgetting his san… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He put on his clothes as quickly as he could (not forgetting his sandals and gold-hilted sword), and, hastening to the king, inquired what it all meant. Who acts: noise, air. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 83

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He put on his clothes as quickly as he could (not forgetting his sandals and gold-hilted sword), and, hastening to the king, inquired what it all meant.

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**Who acts:** noise, air · **What happens:** put, not forget, hilt, hasten, inquire, mean · **To what, where:** clothes, sandals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (noise, air), 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:pg976:4:83
# text = He put on his clothes as quickly as he could (not forgetting his sandals and gold-hilted sword), and, hastening to the king, inquired what it all meant.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hilted	hilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	obj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | noise |  |  | noise's clothes |  | quickly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | could | noise | noise's sandals and hilted sword |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hilt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hasten** | gerund | noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the king *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to king=Result |
| 5 | **inquire** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **mean** | past | air |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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