--- title: At length, being now a tall and athletic youth, Jason resolved to se… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At length, being now a tall and athletic youth, Jason resolved to seek his fortune in the world, without asking Chiron's advice, or telling him anything about the matter. Who acts: Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Golden Fleece., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/) / 15 # Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 15 At length, being now a tall and athletic youth, Jason resolved to seek his fortune in the world, without asking Chiron's advice, or telling him anything about the matter. **Who acts:** Jason · **What happens:** be, resolve, seek, ask, tell · **To what, where:** tall youth, length, fortune, world, advice, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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. **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:pg976:25:15 # text = At length, being now a tall and athletic youth, Jason resolved to seek his fortune in the world, without asking Chiron's advice, or telling him anything about the matter. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 cop _ _ 5 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 athletic athletic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ _ 10 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 without without SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 24 Chiron Chiron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 32 about about ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | a tall youth | | | now | | tree rules | | 2 | **resolve** | past | Jason | | | length and a tall youth | | | tree rules | | 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* | Jason's fortune | | the world | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in world=Location | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Jason *not said here* | Chiron's advice | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Jason *not said here* | anything | Jason | | | about the matter | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient anything=Topic | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/16/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/)