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title: But, you are to understand, he had heard how that he himself was a p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, you are to understand, he had heard how that he himself was a prince royal, and how his father, King Jason, had been deprived of the kingdom of Iolchos by a certain Pelias, who would also have killed Jason, had he not been hidden in the Centaur's cave. Who acts: you, Jason, certain Pelias. A se
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 17

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But, you are to understand, he had heard how that he himself was a prince royal, and how his father, King Jason, had been deprived of the kingdom of Iolchos by a certain Pelias, who would also have killed Jason, had he not been hidden in the Centaur's cave.

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**Who acts:** you, Jason, certain Pelias · **What happens:** be, hear, deprive, kill, have, not hide · **To what, where:** prince royal, father, certain Pelias, Jason, cave

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jason, certain Pelias), 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:pg976:25:17
# text = But, you are to understand, he had heard how that he himself was a prince royal, and how his father, King Jason, had been deprived of the kingdom of Iolchos by a certain Pelias, who would also have killed Jason, had he not been hidden in the Centaur's cave.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	understand	understand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	royal	royal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Iolchos	Iolchos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	also	also	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux	_	_
45	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
46	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
51	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	xcomp	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	's	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | understand *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Jason | a prince royal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **deprive** | past · perfect · passive | a certain Pelias | Jason's father |  |  |  | of the kingdom of Iolchos | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Source of kingdom=Theme |
| 5 | **kill** | would · perfect · passive |  | a certain Pelias |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer jason=Result |
| 6 | **have** | past | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **hide** | participle · passive |  | Jason |  | the Centaur's cave |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in cave=Location |

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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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