--- title: It put him into the worst possible humor, therefore, to hear that th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It put him into the worst possible humor, therefore, to hear that the gallant Prince Jason, and forty-nine of the bravest young warriors of Greece, had come to Colchis with the sole purpose of taking away his chief treasure. Who acts: Fleece, sole purpose, king. 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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 (Fleece, sole purpose, king), 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:pg976:28:13 # text = It put him into the worst possible humor, therefore, to hear that the gallant Prince Jason, and forty-nine of the bravest young warriors of Greece, had come to Colchis with the sole purpose of taking away his chief treasure. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 7 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 humor humor NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 gallant gallant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 bravest brave ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 27 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 warriors warrior NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Greece Greece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Colchis Colchis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 sole sole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 of of SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 42 away away ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 44 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | past | Fleece | | king | the worst possible humor | | forty nine of the bravest young warriors of Greece *obl* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | | 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Fleece *not said here* | the gallant Prince Jason | | | | therefore *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | past · perfect | Fleece *not said here* | | | Colchis | | with the sole purpose | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to colchis=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **take away** | gerund | the sole purpose *not said here* | king's chief treasure | | | | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | | 5 | **treasure** | | king | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/14/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)