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title: At length, when they had gone farther and farther into the heart of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, when they had gone farther and farther into the heart of the duskiness, Medea squeezed Jason's hand. Who acts: boughs, 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 71

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At length, when they had gone farther and farther into the heart of the duskiness, Medea squeezed Jason's hand.

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**Who acts:** boughs, Medea · **What happens:** go, squeeze · **To what, where:** length, hand

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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 (boughs, 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:pg976:29:71
# text = At length, when they had gone farther and farther into the heart of the duskiness, Medea squeezed Jason's hand.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	duskiness	duskiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
20	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | boughs *= bough* |  |  | length |  | into the heart of the duskiness; far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **squeeze** | past | Medea | Jason's hand |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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