--- title: At the appointed hour you might again have seen Prince Jason and the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At the appointed hour you might again have seen Prince Jason and the Princess Medea, side by side, stealing through the streets of Colchis, on their way to the sacred grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was suspended to a tree. Who acts: you. 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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 (you), 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:pg976:29:63 # text = At the appointed hour you might again have seen Prince Jason and the Princess Medea, side by side, stealing through the streets of Colchis, on their way to the sacred grove, in the center of which the Golden Fleece was suspended to a tree. 1 At at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 aux _ _ 9 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Medea Medea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Colchis Colchis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 grove grove NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 center center NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 obl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Fleece Fleece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux:pass _ _ 45 suspended suspend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl:relcl _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | might · perfect | you | Prince Jason and the Princess Medea | | | again; hour | by side | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **steal** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | the streets of Colchis | | on streets's way to the sacred grove; in the center | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Location | | 4 | **suspend** | past · passive | | the Golden Fleece | | | | of the center; to a tree | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/64/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/)