--- title: Jason and his friends went boldly to meet them, slew a great many, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Jason and his friends went boldly to meet them, slew a great many, and made the rest take to their heels, so that if the giants had had six legs apiece instead of six arms, it would have served them better to run away with. Who acts: Jason, rest, giants. 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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, rest, giants), 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:pg976:27:51 # text = Jason and his friends went boldly to meet them, slew a great many, and made the rest take to their heels, so that if the giants had had six legs apiece instead of six arms, it would have served them better to run away with. 1 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 so so SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 32 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 apiece apiece ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 35 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 38 case _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 aux _ _ 43 served serve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 43 xcomp _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 run run VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 advcl _ _ 48 away away ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Jason and Jason's friends | | | | | boldly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Jason and Jason's friends *not said here* | giants *= giant* | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 3 | **slay** | past | Jason and Jason's friends *not said here* | a great many | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Patient | | 4 | **make** | past | | the rest | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | infinitive | the rest *not said here* | | | | | to giants's heels *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result | | 6 | **have** | past · perfect | the giants | six legs | | | | instead six arms; apiece *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 7 | **serve** | would · perfect · passive | | rest | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **run away** | to-infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/52/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/)