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title: "What says King Aetes, my royal and upright father?" inquired Medea,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "What says King Aetes, my royal and upright father?" inquired Medea, slightly smiling. " Who acts: 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 54

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"What says King Aetes, my royal and upright father?" inquired Medea, slightly smiling. "

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**Who acts:** Medea · **What happens:** say, inquire, smile · **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 (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:pg976:29:54
# text = "What says King Aetes, my royal and upright father?" inquired Medea, slightly smiling. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	Aetes	Aetes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
15	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Medea |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smile** | gerund | Medea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slightly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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