--- title: Since that time, Phrixus had married the king's daughter; and the tw… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Since that time, Phrixus had married the king's daughter; and the two young princes had been born and brought up at Colchis, and had spent their play-days in the outskirts of the grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was hanging upon a tree. Who acts: Golden Fleece. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Golden Fleece), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:27:77 # text = Since that time, Phrixus had married the king's daughter; and the two young princes had been born and brought up at Colchis, and had spent their play-days in the outskirts of the grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was hanging upon a tree. 1 Since since ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Phrixus Phrixus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Colchis Colchis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 outskirts outskirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 grove grove NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 center center NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 50 obl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 Fleece Fleece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 hanging hang VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 acl _ _ 51 upon upon ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive | | Phrixus | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive | | the two young princes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **bring up** | participle | | | | Colchis | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spend** | past · perfect | | | | the outskirts of the grove | day | in the center | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hang** | past · progressive | the Golden Fleece | | | a tree | | of the center | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/78/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/)