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title: My father and all his court delight in nothing so much as to see a s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My father and all his court delight in nothing so much as to see a stranger trying to yoke them, in order to come at the Golden Fleece. Who acts: stranger, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 64

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My father and all his court delight in nothing so much as to see a stranger trying to yoke them, in order to come at the Golden Fleece.

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**Who acts:** stranger, Cadmus · **What happens:** see, try, yoke, come, delight · **To what, where:** stranger, princesses, Golden Fleece, nothing

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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 (stranger, Cadmus), 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:pg976:28:64
# text = My father and all his court delight in nothing so much as to see a stranger trying to yoke them, in order to come at the Golden Fleece.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	yoke	yoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	25	mark	_	_
23	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	fixed	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | a stranger |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | a stranger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **yoke** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* | princesses *= princess* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* |  |  | the Golden Fleece |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fleece=Location |
| 5 | **delight** |  | Cadmus |  |  | nothing |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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