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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 13

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So Jason dwelt in the cave, with this four-footed Chiron, from the time that he was an infant, only a few months old, until he had grown to the full height of a man.

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**Who acts:** Jason · **What happens:** dwell, be, grow · **To what, where:** cave, time

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (Jason), 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:pg976:25:13
# text = So Jason dwelt in the cave, with this four-footed Chiron, from the time that he was an infant, only a few months old, until he had grown to the full height of a man.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | Jason |  |  | the cave |  | with footed Chiron | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | Jason | the time *not said here* |  |  |  | infant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past · perfect | Jason |  |  |  |  | to the full height of a man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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