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Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 40

And now I solicit your majesty's permission to encounter the dragon, that I may take down the Golden Fleece from the tree, and depart, with my nine and forty comrades."

Who acts: I, majesty · What happens: solicit, encounter, take down, depart, permit · To what, where: permission, dragon, Golden Fleece, tree

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, majesty), 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

ccadvmodnsubjnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjmarkadvcldetobjpunctmarknsubjauxconjcompound:prtdetamodobjcasedetoblpunctccconjpunctcasenmod:possnummodccconjoblpunctpunctrootAndCCONJnowADVIPRONsolicitVERByourPRONmajestyNOUN'sPARTpermissionNOUNtoPARTencounterVERBtheDETdragonNOUN,PUNCTthatSCONJIPRONmayAUXtakeVERBdownADPtheDETGoldenADJFleecePROPNfromADPtheDETtreeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdepartVERB,PUNCTwithADPmyPRONnineNUMandCCONJfortyNUMcomradesNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 solicitcc
2nownowADVPronType=Dem4 solicitadvmod
3IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 solicitnsubj
4solicitsolicitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 majestynmod:poss
6majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing8 permissionnmod:poss
7's'sPART_6 majestycase
8permissionpermissionNOUNNumber=Sing4 solicitobj
9totoPART_10 encountermark
10encounterencounterVERBVerbForm=Inf4 solicitadvcl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 dragondet
12dragondragonNOUNNumber=Sing10 encounterobj
13,,PUNCT_17 takepunct
14thatthatSCONJ_17 takemark
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 takensubj
16maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin17 takeaux
17taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf10 encounterconj
18downdownADP_17 takecompound:prt
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 Fleecedet
20GoldengoldenADJDegree=Pos21 Fleeceamod
21FleeceFleecePROPNNumber=Sing17 takeobj
22fromfromADP_24 treecase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 treedet
24treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing17 takeobl
25,,PUNCT_27 departpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 departcc
27departdepartVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin4 solicitconj
28,,PUNCT_34 comradespunct
29withwithADP_34 comradescase
30mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 comradesnmod:poss
31ninenineNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card34 comradesnummod
32andandCCONJ_33 fortycc
33fortyfortyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card31 nineconj
34comradescomradeNOUNNumber=Plur27 departobl
35..PUNCT_4 solicitpunct
36""PUNCT_4 solicitpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1solicitpresentIyour majesty's permissionnowtree rules
2encounterto-infinitiveI not said herethe dragonvn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus
3take downmayIthe Golden Fleecethe treevn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme
4departinfinitiveI not said herewith my nine comradesvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5permityour majestynom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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