--- title: Thus, by the time he reached his journey's end, Theseus had done man… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Thus, by the time he reached his journey's end, Theseus had done many valiant feats with his father's golden-hilted sword, and had gained the renown of being one of the bravest young men of the day. Who acts: sow, Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/85/) [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/) / 85 # Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 85 Thus, by the time he reached his journey's end, Theseus had done many valiant feats with his father's golden-hilted sword, and had gained the renown of being one of the bravest young men of the day. **Who acts:** sow, Theseus · **What happens:** reach, do, hilt, gain, be, journey · **To what, where:** end, many valiant feats, renown 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 (sow, Theseus), 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:pg976:3:85 # text = Thus, by the time he reached his journey's end, Theseus had done many valiant feats with his father's golden-hilted sword, and had gained the renown of being one of the bravest young men of the day. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 Theseus Theseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 valiant valiant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 feats feat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 hilted hilt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 gained gain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 renown renown NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 cop _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 bravest brave ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 amod _ _ 39 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | sow | sow's journey's end | | | time | thus *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent end=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past · perfect | Theseus | many valiant feats | | | | with sow's father's golden hilted sword | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Eventuality | | 3 | **hilt** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **gain** | past · perfect | sow *not said here* | the renown | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renown=Theme | | 5 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | of one; of the bravest young men of the day | tree rules | | 6 | **journey** | | sow | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/86/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/)