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title: After kindly patting the bulls, Jason followed Medea's guidance into… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After kindly patting the bulls, Jason followed Medea's guidance into the Grove of Mars, where the great oak trees, that had been growing for centuries, threw so thick a shade that the moonbeams struggled vainly to find their way through it. Who acts: Jason, great oak trees, moonbeams, Medea. A sente
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 69

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After kindly patting the bulls, Jason followed Medea's guidance into the Grove of Mars, where the great oak trees, that had been growing for centuries, threw so thick a shade that the moonbeams struggled vainly to find their way through it.

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**Who acts:** Jason, great oak trees, moonbeams, Medea · **What happens:** pat, follow, grow, throw, struggle, find · **To what, where:** bulls, guidance, Grove, way, shade

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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, great oak trees, moonbeams, 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:pg976:29:69
# text = After kindly patting the bulls, Jason followed Medea's guidance into the Grove of Mars, where the great oak trees, that had been growing for centuries, threw so thick a shade that the moonbeams struggled vainly to find their way through it.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	patting	pat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Grove	Grove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Mars	Mars	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux	_	_
27	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
40	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	through	through	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pat** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | the bulls |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Experiencer |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Jason | Medea's guidance |  | the Grove of Mars |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guidance=Theme into grove=Trajectory |
| 3 | **grow** | past · perfect · progressive | the great oak trees |  |  |  | century |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | past | the great oak trees |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **struggle** | past | the moonbeams |  |  |  |  | vainly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | the moonbeams *not said here* | streets's way |  | shade |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 7 | **guide** |  | Medea |  |  |  |  |  | nom guidance «communication transitive»: poss=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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