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title: So saying, King Aegeus took the golden goblet from the table, and wa… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, King Aegeus took the golden goblet from the table, and was about to offer it to Theseus. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 39

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So saying, King Aegeus took the golden goblet from the table, and was about to offer it to Theseus.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** say, take, be, offer · **To what, where:** golden goblet, table, goblet, Theseus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg976:4:39
# text = So saying, King Aegeus took the golden goblet from the table, and was about to offer it to Theseus.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | King | the golden goblet |  | the table |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme from table=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | goblet | Theseus |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme to theseus=Goal |

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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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