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title: "My good young man," said King Pelias, taking the softest tone imagi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My good young man," said King Pelias, taking the softest tone imaginable, in order to throw Jason off his guard, "you are excessively welcome to my kingdom. Who acts: good young man, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 29

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"My good young man," said King Pelias, taking the softest tone imaginable, in order to throw Jason off his guard, "you are excessively welcome to my kingdom.

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**Who acts:** good young man, you · **What happens:** say, take, throw, be · **To what, where:** softest tone, Jason, guard · **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 (good young man, you), 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:pg976:26:29
# text = "My good young man," said King Pelias, taking the softest tone imaginable, in order to throw Jason off his guard, "you are excessively welcome to my kingdom.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	softest	soft	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	fixed	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
22	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	excessively	excessively	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My good young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | My good young man *not said here* | the softest tone |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive | My good young man *not said here* | Jason |  | king's guard |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent jason=Theme off guard=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | to my kingdom; excessively, welcome *property* | 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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