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title: But when they heard that Theseus had arrived in Athens, and learned… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when they heard that Theseus had arrived in Athens, and learned what a gallant young man he was, they saw that he would not be at all the kind of a person to let them steal away his father's crown and scepter, which ought to be his own by right of inheritance. Who acts: nephews, Theseus, crown, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 93

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But when they heard that Theseus had arrived in Athens, and learned what a gallant young man he was, they saw that he would not be at all the kind of a person to let them steal away his father's crown and scepter, which ought to be his own by right of inheritance.

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**Who acts:** nephews, Theseus, crown, father · **What happens:** hear, arrive, learn, see, not be, let · **To what, where:** Athens, gallant young man, kind, nephews, crown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (nephews, Theseus, crown, father), 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:pg976:3:93
# text = But when they heard that Theseus had arrived in Athens, and learned what a gallant young man he was, they saw that he would not be at all the kind of a person to let them steal away his father's crown and scepter, which ought to be his own by right of inheritance.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	18	det	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	away	away	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	scepter	scepter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
49	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
51	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	cop	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | nephews *= nephew* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **arrive** | past · perfect | Theseus |  |  | Athens |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | past | nephews *= nephew* *not said here* | what gallant young man |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | past | nephews *= nephew* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **is** | would | Theseus |  |  | all kind |  | of a person | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | nephews *= nephew* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **steal away** | infinitive | nephews *= nephew* *not said here* | Theseus's father's crown and scepter |  |  |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | ought | Theseus's father's crown and scepter |  |  |  |  | by right of inheritance; own *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **crown** |  | Theseus's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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