Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 25

For you are to know, that, many years before, King Pelias had been told by the Speaking Oak of Dodona, that a man with one sandal should cast him down from his throne.

Who acts: you, Speaking Oak, man · What happens: be, tell, cast down · To what, where: King, throne · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (you, Speaking Oak, man), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 know	mark
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 that	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 know	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 years	punct
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 before	obl:unmarked
11	before	before	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj
14	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 King	flat
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 Oak	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Oak	det
20	Speaking	Speaking	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Oak	compound
21	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Dodona	case
23	Dodona	Dodona	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Oak	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cast	punct
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 cast	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	nsubj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 sandal	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 sandal	nummod
30	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	nmod
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 cast	aux
32	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cast	obj
34	down	down	ADP	_	32 cast	compound:prt
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 throne	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 throne	nmod:poss
37	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cast	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			that obl; before, know property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the Speaking Oak of Dodona	King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	cast down	should	a man with one sandal	king	man's throne		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent he=Product from throne=Material

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.

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