--- title: When it was quite gone, Jason felt inclined to doubt whether he had… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When it was quite gone, Jason felt inclined to doubt whether he had actually heard the words, or whether his fancy had not shaped them out of the ordinary sound made by a breeze, while passing through the thick foliage of the tree. Who acts: voice, Jason. 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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 (voice, 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:pg976:26:73 # text = When it was quite gone, Jason felt inclined to doubt whether he had actually heard the words, or whether his fancy had not shaped them out of the ordinary sound made by a breeze, while passing through the thick foliage of the tree. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 inclined inclined ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 doubt doubt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 actually actually ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 ccomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 fancy fancy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 conj _ _ 40 through through ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 foliage foliage NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | voice | | | | | gone *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | past | Jason | | | | | inclined *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **doubt** | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | Jason | the words | | | | actually *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 5 | **not** **shape** | past · perfect · passive | | Jason's fancy | | the ordinary sound | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Product | | 6 | **make** | participle | | the ordinary sound *not said here* | | | | by a breeze | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 7 | **pass** | gerund | | | | the thick foliage of the tree | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through foliage=Location | | 8 | **fancy** | | Jason | | | | | | nom fancy «cognition 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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/74/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/)