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title: Will he give you the Golden Fleece, without any further risk or trou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Will he give you the Golden Fleece, without any further risk or trouble?" Who acts: king. 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 55

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Will he give you the Golden Fleece, without any further risk or trouble?"

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** Golden Fleece

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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 (king), 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:pg976:29:55
# text = Will he give you the Golden Fleece, without any further risk or trouble?"
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | king |  | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient fleece=Theme |

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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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