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title: Surrounded by these armed warriors, Prince Theseus and his companion… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Surrounded by these armed warriors, Prince Theseus and his companions were led to the king's palace, and ushered into his presence. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 56

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Surrounded by these armed warriors, Prince Theseus and his companions were led to the king's palace, and ushered into his presence.

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**What happens:** surround, lead, usher · **To what, where:** companions, palace, presence

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg976:5:56
# text = Surrounded by these armed warriors, Prince Theseus and his companions were led to the king's palace, and ushered into his presence.
1	Surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ushered	usher	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past · passive |  | Theseus's companions |  | the king's palace |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 3 | **usher** | past |  |  |  | King's presence |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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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