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title: The first thing that Jason thought of doing, after he left the king'… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The first thing that Jason thought of doing, after he left the king's presence, was to go to Dodona, and inquire of the Talking Oak what course it was best to pursue. Who acts: Jason, first thing, course. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 60

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The first thing that Jason thought of doing, after he left the king's presence, was to go to Dodona, and inquire of the Talking Oak what course it was best to pursue.

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**Who acts:** Jason, first thing, course · **What happens:** think, do, leave, be, inquire, pursue · **To what, where:** first thing, presence, Dodona

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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 (Jason, first thing, course), 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:pg976:26:60
# text = The first thing that Jason thought of doing, after he left the king's presence, was to go to Dodona, and inquire of the Talking Oak what course it was best to pursue.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Dodona	Dodona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	31	det	_	_
31	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	expl	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Jason | the first thing |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | past | Jason | the king's presence |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the first thing |  | Dodona |  |  | go *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **inquire** *speech: other* | infinitive | the first thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the Talking Oak | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of oak=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | past | what course |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **pursue** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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