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title: She fixed her eyes earnestly upon the youthful stranger, and listene… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She fixed her eyes earnestly upon the youthful stranger, and listened attentively to every word that was spoken; and when Jason withdrew from the king's presence, this young woman followed him out of the room. Who acts: woman, Jason, young woman. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthor
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 33

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She fixed her eyes earnestly upon the youthful stranger, and listened attentively to every word that was spoken; and when Jason withdrew from the king's presence, this young woman followed him out of the room.

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**Who acts:** woman, Jason, young woman · **What happens:** fix, listen, speak, withdraw, follow · **To what, where:** eyes, word, presence, Jason, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Jason, young woman), 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:pg976:28:33
# text = She fixed her eyes earnestly upon the youthful stranger, and listened attentively to every word that was spoken; and when Jason withdrew from the king's presence, this young woman followed him out of the room.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past | woman | woman's eyes |  |  |  | upon the youthful stranger; earnestly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **listen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to every word; attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | every word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **withdraw** | past | Jason |  |  | the king's presence |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from presence=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **follow** | past | this young woman | Jason |  | the room |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out room=Trajectory |

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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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