--- title: Well, Prince Jason," he continued, aloud, and as complaisantly as he… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, Prince Jason," he continued, aloud, and as complaisantly as he could, "make yourself comfortable for to-day, and to-morrow morning, since you insist upon it, you shall try your skill at the plow." Who acts: Jason, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/31/) [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/) / 31 # Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 31 Well, Prince Jason," he continued, aloud, and as complaisantly as he could, "make yourself comfortable for to-day, and to-morrow morning, since you insist upon it, you shall try your skill at the plow." **Who acts:** Jason, you · **What happens:** continue, make, insist, try · **To what, where:** yourself, skill, plow · **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 (Jason, you), 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:pg976:28:31 # text = Well, Prince Jason," he continued, aloud, and as complaisantly as he could, "make yourself comfortable for to-day, and to-morrow morning, since you insist upon it, you shall try your skill at the plow." 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 complaisantly complaisantly ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 21 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 since since SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 insist insist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 37 upon upon ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 43 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 skill skill NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 plow plow NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** *in a quote* | past | Jason | | | | morning | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **make** | could | Jason *not said here* | yourself | | | | comfortable, complaisantly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset yourself=Product | | 3 | **insist** *speech: other* | present | you | | | | | upon bargain | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **try** | shall | you | your skill | | the plow | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Eventuality | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/32/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)