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title: This, as your majesty is aware, is now hanging on a tree here at Col… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This, as your majesty is aware, is now hanging on a tree here at Colchis; and I humbly solicit your gracious leave to take it away." Who acts: This, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 11

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This, as your majesty is aware, is now hanging on a tree here at Colchis; and I humbly solicit your gracious leave to take it away."

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**Who acts:** This, I · **What happens:** be, hang, solicit, take away · **To what, where:** tree, gracious leave, majesty

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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:pg976:28:11
# text = This, as your majesty is aware, is now hanging on a tree here at Colchis; and I humbly solicit your gracious leave to take it away."
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	solicit	solicit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	leave	leave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | aware *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | present · progressive |  |  |  | a tree; here | now | at Colchis | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location |
| 3 | **solicit** | present | I | your gracious leave |  |  |  | humbly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take away** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | majesty |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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