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title: I forbid you, on pain of death, to make any more attempts to get the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I forbid you, on pain of death, to make any more attempts to get the Golden Fleece. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 46

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I forbid you, on pain of death, to make any more attempts to get the Golden Fleece.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** forbid, make, get, pain · **To what, where:** you, pain, more attempts, Golden Fleece, death

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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), 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:pg976:29:46
# text = I forbid you, on pain of death, to make any more attempts to get the Golden Fleece.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forbid	forbid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	any	any	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	attempts	attempt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | present | I | you |  | pain of death |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | more attempts |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attempt=Product |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleece=Stimulus |
| 4 | **pain** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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