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description: For you are to know, that, many years before, King Pelias had been told by the Speaking Oak of Dodona, that a man with one sandal should cast him down from his throne. Who acts: you, Speaking Oak, man. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its depe
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 25

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For you are to know, that, many years before, King Pelias had been told by the Speaking Oak of Dodona, that a man with one sandal should cast him down from his throne.

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**Who acts:** you, Speaking Oak, man · **What happens:** be, tell, cast down · **To what, where:** King, throne · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (you, Speaking Oak, man), 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:pg976:26:25
# text = For you are to know, that, many years before, King Pelias had been told by the Speaking Oak of Dodona, that a man with one sandal should cast him down from his throne.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Speaking	Speaking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Dodona	Dodona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | that *obl*; before, know *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | the Speaking Oak of Dodona | King |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **cast down** | should | a man with one sandal | king |  | man's throne |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent he=Product from throne=Material |

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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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