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title: Theseus was very fond of hearing about King Aegeus, and often asked… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Theseus was very fond of hearing about King Aegeus, and often asked his good mother Aethra why he did not come and live with them at Troezene. Who acts: Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 7

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Theseus was very fond of hearing about King Aegeus, and often asked his good mother Aethra why he did not come and live with them at Troezene.

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**Who acts:** Theseus · **What happens:** be, hear, ask, not come, live · **To what, where:** good mother, Troezene

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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 (Theseus), 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:pg976:3:7
# text = Theseus was very fond of hearing about King Aegeus, and often asked his good mother Aethra why he did not come and live with them at Troezene.
1	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Troezene	Troezene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | gerund | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about King Aegeus | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about aegeus=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Theseus *not said here* |  | Theseus's good mother |  |  | often *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **come** *not said to happen* | past · do-support | Theseus |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | infinitive | Theseus *not said here* |  |  | Troezene |  | with city | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location |

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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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