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title: But Jason had set his heart steadfastly on getting the Golden Fleece… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Jason had set his heart steadfastly on getting the Golden Fleece; and I positively doubt whether he would have gone back without it, even had he been certain of finding himself turned into a red-hot cinder, or a handful of white ashes, the instant he made a step farther. Who acts: I, Jason. A se
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 70

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But Jason had set his heart steadfastly on getting the Golden Fleece; and I positively doubt whether he would have gone back without it, even had he been certain of finding himself turned into a red-hot cinder, or a handful of white ashes, the instant he made a step farther.

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**Who acts:** I, Jason · **What happens:** set, get, doubt, go back, have, be · **To what, where:** Jason, Golden Fleece, hot cinder, step · **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 (I, Jason), 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:pg976:28:70
# text = But Jason had set his heart steadfastly on getting the Golden Fleece; and I positively doubt whether he would have gone back without it, even had he been certain of finding himself turned into a red-hot cinder, or a handful of white ashes, the instant he made a step farther.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	steadfastly	steadfastly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	doubt	doubt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	nsubj	_	_
35	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	appos	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
56	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · perfect · passive |  | Jason |  |  |  | steadfastly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme heart=Destination |
| 2 | **get** | gerund |  | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleece=Stimulus |
| 3 | **doubt** | present | I |  |  |  |  | positively *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go back** | would · perfect | Jason |  |  |  |  | without Fleece | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | participle | Jason |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **find** | gerund | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **turn** | past | Jason |  |  | a hot cinder |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cinder=Trajectory |
| 9 | **make** | past | Jason | a step |  |  |  | far *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Product |

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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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