--- title: With this intention, he took a spear in each hand, and threw a leopa… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: With this intention, he took a spear in each hand, and threw a leopard's skin over his shoulders, to keep off the rain, and set forth on his travels, with his long yellow ringlets waving in the wind. Who acts: Jason, long yellow ringlets. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, long yellow ringlets), 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:pg976:25:19 # text = With this intention, he took a spear in each hand, and threw a leopard's skin over his shoulders, to keep off the rain, and set forth on his travels, with his long yellow ringlets waving in the wind. 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 intention intention NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 leopard leopard NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 set set VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 forth forth ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 on on SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 travels travel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 38 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 39 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 ringlets ringlet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 41 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | Jason | a spear | | each hand | | with this intention | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent spear=Value in hand=Location | | 2 | **throw** | past | Jason *not said here* | a leopard's skin | | Jason's shoulders | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent skin=Theme over shoulder=Destination | | 3 | **keep off** | to-infinitive | | the rain | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | | 4 | **set** | infinitive | | | | | | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **travel** | present | | | | | | with Jason's long yellow ringlets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **wave** | gerund | Jason's long yellow ringlets *not said here* | | | | | in the wind | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wind=Theme | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/20/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/)