--- title: The king was a stern and cruel looking potentate; and though he put… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The king was a stern and cruel looking potentate; and though he put on as polite and hospitable an expression as he could, Jason did not like his face a whit better than that of the wicked King Pelias, who dethroned his father. " Who acts: king, Jason, wicked King Pelias. 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" **Who acts:** king, Jason, wicked King Pelias · **What happens:** be, look, put on, not like, dethrone · **To what, where:** stern, face, father 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, Jason, wicked King Pelias), 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:pg976:28:6 # text = The king was a stern and cruel looking potentate; and though he put on as polite and hospitable an expression as he could, Jason did not like his face a whit better than that of the wicked King Pelias, who dethroned his father. " 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stern stern NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 amod _ _ 9 potentate potentate NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 though though SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 on on ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 17 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 hospitable hospitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 whit whit NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 parataxis _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Pelias Pelias PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 44 dethroned dethrone VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the king | a stern and cruel looking potentate | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **put on** | past | king | | | | | as a polite expression | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | Jason | king's face | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot face=Theme | | 5 | **dethrone** | past | the wicked King Pelias | king's father | | | | | tree rules | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/7/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)