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title: And while they were talking about it, Cyzicus pointed to the mountai… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And while they were talking about it, Cyzicus pointed to the mountain, and asked Jason and his companions what they saw there. Who acts: Argonauts, Cyzicus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 40

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And while they were talking about it, Cyzicus pointed to the mountain, and asked Jason and his companions what they saw there.

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**Who acts:** Argonauts, Cyzicus · **What happens:** talk, point, ask, see · **To what, where:** mountain, Jason

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Argonauts, Cyzicus), 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:pg976:27:40
# text = And while they were talking about it, Cyzicus pointed to the mountain, and asked Jason and his companions what they saw there.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Cyzicus	Cyzicus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
17	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	iobj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past · progressive | Argonauts *= argonaut* |  |  |  |  | about country | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 2 | **point** | past | Cyzicus |  | the mountain |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mountain=Recipient |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  |  | Jason and Cyzicus's companions |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jason=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** | past | Argonauts *= argonaut* |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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