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title: And now I solicit your majesty's permission to encounter the dragon,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And now I solicit your majesty's permission to encounter the dragon, that I may take down the Golden Fleece from the tree, and depart, with my nine and forty comrades." Who acts: I, majesty. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 40

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And now I solicit your majesty's permission to encounter the dragon, that I may take down the Golden Fleece from the tree, and depart, with my nine and forty comrades."

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**Who acts:** I, majesty · **What happens:** solicit, encounter, take down, depart, permit · **To what, where:** permission, dragon, Golden Fleece, tree

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, majesty), 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:pg976:29:40
# text = And now I solicit your majesty's permission to encounter the dragon, that I may take down the Golden Fleece from the tree, and depart, with my nine and forty comrades."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	solicit	solicit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	encounter	encounter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	depart	depart	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
31	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	_
34	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solicit** | present | I | your majesty's permission |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **encounter** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take down** | may | I | the Golden Fleece |  | the tree |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme |
| 4 | **depart** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with my nine comrades | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **permit** |  | your majesty |  |  |  |  |  | nom permission «communication transitive»: 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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