--- title: "Do you know," asked King Aetes, eyeing Jason very sternly, "what ar… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Do you know," asked King Aetes, eyeing Jason very sternly, "what are the conditions which you must fulfill before getting possession of the Golden Fleece?" Who acts: King, you, conditions. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/) / 14 # Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 14 "Do you know," asked King Aetes, eyeing Jason very sternly, "what are the conditions which you must fulfill before getting possession of the Golden Fleece?" **Who acts:** King, you, conditions · **What happens:** know, ask, eye, be, fulfill, get · **To what, where:** King, Jason, conditions, possession, Golden Fleece · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (King, you, conditions), 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:pg976:28:14 # text = "Do you know," asked King Aetes, eyeing Jason very sternly, "what are the conditions which you must fulfill before getting possession of the Golden Fleece?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 iobj _ _ 9 Aetes Aetes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 eyeing eye VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 sternly sternly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 20 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 conditions condition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 fulfill fulfill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 27 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Fleece Fleece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | King | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | you *not said here* | | King | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 3 | **eye** | gerund | you *not said here* | Jason | | | | sternly *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jason=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the conditions | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fulfill** *in a quote* | must | the conditions | | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | gerund | the conditions *not said here* | possession of the Golden Fleece | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus | | 7 | **possess** *in a quote* | | | the Golden Fleece | | | | | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/15/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)