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title: But, as Jason was hastening down the palace steps, the Princess Mede… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, as Jason was hastening down the palace steps, the Princess Medea called after him, and beckoned him to return. Who acts: Jason, Princess Medea. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 51

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But, as Jason was hastening down the palace steps, the Princess Medea called after him, and beckoned him to return.

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**Who acts:** Jason, Princess Medea · **What happens:** hasten, call, beckon, return · **To what, where:** Jason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, Princess Medea), 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:pg976:29:51
# text = But, as Jason was hastening down the palace steps, the Princess Medea called after him, and beckoned him to return.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hastening	hasten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past · progressive | Jason |  |  |  |  | down the palace steps | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** | past | the Princess Medea |  |  |  | after Jason |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **beckon** | past | the Princess Medea *not said here* | Jason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | to-infinitive | the Princess Medea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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