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title: They proposed to him that he should come into the king's presence as… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They proposed to him that he should come into the king's presence as a stranger, in order to try whether Aegeus would discover in the young man's features any likeness either to himself or his mother Aethra, and thus recognize him for a son. Who acts: nephews, Theseus, Aegeus, young man. A sentence 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 98

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They proposed to him that he should come into the king's presence as a stranger, in order to try whether Aegeus would discover in the young man's features any likeness either to himself or his mother Aethra, and thus recognize him for a son.

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**Who acts:** nephews, Theseus, Aegeus, young man · **What happens:** propose, come, try, discover, recognize, feature · **To what, where:** Theseus, presence, likeness, features

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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, Aegeus, young man), 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:pg976:3:98
# text = They proposed to him that he should come into the king's presence as a stranger, in order to try whether Aegeus would discover in the young man's features any likeness either to himself or his mother Aethra, and thus recognize him for a son.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	21	mark	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	fixed	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
34	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | nephews *= nephew* |  | Theseus |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | should | Theseus |  |  | the king's presence |  | as a stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **discover** *not said to happen* | would | Aegeus | any likeness | Theseus | the young man's features |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent likeness=Topic |
| 5 | **recognize** | infinitive |  | Theseus |  |  |  | for a son; thus *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **feature** |  | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition 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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