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title: When the king of the country, whose name was Aetes, heard of their a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the king of the country, whose name was Aetes, heard of their arrival, he instantly summoned Jason to court. Who acts: name, king, Aetes, princes. 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 5

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When the king of the country, whose name was Aetes, heard of their arrival, he instantly summoned Jason to court.

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**Who acts:** name, king, Aetes, princes · **What happens:** be, hear, summon, name, arrive · **To what, where:** Aetes, Jason

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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 (name, king, Aetes, princes), 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:pg976:28:5
# text = When the king of the country, whose name was Aetes, heard of their arrival, he instantly summoned Jason to court.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	Aetes	Aetes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Aetes's name | Aetes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the king of the country |  |  |  |  | of princes's arrival | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of arrival=Stimulus |
| 3 | **summon** | past | king |  | Jason |  |  | to court; instantly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient |
| 4 | **name** |  | Aetes |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **arrive** |  | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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