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title: When he went to be king of Athens, he bade me treat you as a child u… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he went to be king of Athens, he bade me treat you as a child until you should prove yourself a man by lifting this heavy stone. Who acts: sword, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 64

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When he went to be king of Athens, he bade me treat you as a child until you should prove yourself a man by lifting this heavy stone.

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**Who acts:** sword, you · **What happens:** go, be, bade, treat, prove, lift · **To what, where:** king, me, you, yourself, heavy stone

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, you), 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:pg976:3:64
# text = When he went to be king of Athens, he bade me treat you as a child until you should prove yourself a man by lifting this heavy stone.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	treat	treat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
22	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | sword |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | king |  |  |  | of Athens | tree rules |
| 3 | **bade** |  | sword | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **treat** | present |  | you |  |  |  | as a child | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme as child=Attribute |
| 5 | **prove** | should | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme man=Attribute |
| 6 | **lift** | gerund | you *not said here* | this heavy stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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