--- title: On receiving this excellent counsel, Jason hurried back to his compa… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: On receiving this excellent counsel, Jason hurried back to his companions (who were far more dismayed than when they fought with the six-armed giants), and bade them strike with their swords upon their brazen shields. Who acts: Jason, companions. 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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, companions), 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:pg976:27:71 # text = On receiving this excellent counsel, Jason hurried back to his companions (who were far more dismayed than when they fought with the six-armed giants), and bade them strike with their swords upon their brazen shields. 1 On on SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 receiving receive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 det _ _ 4 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 18 dismayed dismay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 19 than than ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 mark _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 strike strike VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 swords sword NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 38 upon upon ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 brazen brazen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 shields shield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | this excellent counsel | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | | 2 | **hurry back** | past | Jason | | | Jason's companions | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to companion=Destination | | 3 | **is** | past | Jason's companions | | | | | dismay *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fight** | past | companions *= companion* | | | | | with the armed giants | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with giant=Co-Agent | | 5 | **strike** | present | Jason *not said here* | bade | | companions's brazen shields | | with companions's swords | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shield=Location | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/72/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/)