--- title: That task being accomplished, you are to put on his sandals, in orde… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: That task being accomplished, you are to put on his sandals, in order to follow in your father's footsteps, and to gird on his sword, so that you may fight giants and dragons, as King Aegeus did in his youth." Who acts: you, King. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Minotaur., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/) / 65 # Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 65 That task being accomplished, you are to put on his sandals, in order to follow in your father's footsteps, and to gird on his sword, so that you may fight giants and dragons, as King Aegeus did in his youth." **Who acts:** you, King · **What happens:** accomplish, be, follow, gird, fight, do · **To what, where:** task, sandals, footsteps, sword, giants, youth 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 (you, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:3:65 # text = That task being accomplished, you are to put on his sandals, in order to follow in your father's footsteps, and to gird on his sword, so that you may fight giants and dragons, as King Aegeus did in his youth." 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 accomplished accomplish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 sandals sandal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 15 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 fixed _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 gird gird VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 36 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 Aegeus Aegeus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ _ 43 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accomplish** | gerund · passive | | that task | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | sword's sandals | | put *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | your father's footsteps | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in footstep=Location | | 4 | **gird** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | sword's sword | | | tree rules | | 5 | **fight** | may | you | giants and dragons | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | | 6 | **do** | past | King | | | sword's youth | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/66/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/)