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title: Only let King Pelias get a glimpse of that bare foot, and you shall… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Only let King Pelias get a glimpse of that bare foot, and you shall see him turn as pale as ashes, I promise you. Who acts: you, King, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 84

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Only let King Pelias get a glimpse of that bare foot, and you shall see him turn as pale as ashes, I promise you.

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**Who acts:** you, King, I · **What happens:** let, get, see, turn, promise, glimpse · **To what, where:** King, glimpse, you, bare foot

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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, King, I), 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:pg976:25:84
# text = Only let King Pelias get a glimpse of that bare foot, and you shall see him turn as pale as ashes, I promise you.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | King *not said here* | a glimpse of that bare foot |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimpse=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | shall | you | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **glimpse** |  |  | that bare foot |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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