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title: But King Aegeus told them that they were welcome to the whole, and t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But King Aegeus told them that they were welcome to the whole, and to twice as many more, if he had them, for the sake of his delight at finding his son, and losing the wicked Medea. Who acts: King, sake. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its depend
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 71

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But King Aegeus told them that they were welcome to the whole, and to twice as many more, if he had them, for the sake of his delight at finding his son, and losing the wicked Medea.

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**Who acts:** King, sake · **What happens:** tell, welcome, have, find, lose, delight · **To what, where:** people, son, wicked Medea · **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, sake), 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:pg976:4:71
# text = But King Aegeus told them that they were welcome to the whole, and to twice as many more, if he had them, for the sake of his delight at finding his son, and losing the wicked Medea.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	welcome	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	to	too	ADV	RB	Typo=Yes	16	advmod	_	_
16	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | King |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **welcome** | past · passive |  | people |  |  |  | to the whole | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | king | people |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | the sake of king's delight *not said here* | king's son |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic |
| 5 | **lose** | gerund | King *not said here* | the wicked Medea |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medea=Eventuality |
| 6 | **delight** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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