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title: "I am going to Iolchos," answered the young man, "to bid the wicked… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I am going to Iolchos," answered the young man, "to bid the wicked King Pelias come down from my father's throne, and let me reign in his stead." Who acts: young man, wicked King Pelias. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree an
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 41

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"I am going to Iolchos," answered the young man, "to bid the wicked King Pelias come down from my father's throne, and let me reign in his stead."

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**Who acts:** young man, wicked King Pelias · **What happens:** go, answer, bid, come down, let, reign · **To what, where:** Iolchos, throne, young man, stead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (young man, wicked King 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:pg976:25:41
# text = "I am going to Iolchos," answered the young man, "to bid the wicked King Pelias come down from my father's throne, and let me reign in his stead."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Iolchos	Iolchos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Pelias	pelia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the young man *= man* |  |  | Iolchos |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to iolchos=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bid** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come down** *in a quote* | present | the wicked King Pelias |  |  | my father's throne |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from throne=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the young man *= man* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **reign** *in a quote* | infinitive | the young man *= man* *not said here* |  |  | Jason's stead |  |  | tree rules |

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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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