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title: "Have you come so far to seek it," exclaimed Medea, "and do you not… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Have you come so far to seek it," exclaimed Medea, "and do you not recognize the meed of all your toils and perils, when it glitters before your eyes? Who acts: you, Medea, meed, your. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 76

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"Have you come so far to seek it," exclaimed Medea, "and do you not recognize the meed of all your toils and perils, when it glitters before your eyes?

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**Who acts:** you, Medea, meed, your · **What happens:** come, seek, exclaim, not recognize, glitter, toil · **To what, where:** glimpse, meed, eyes · **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 (you, Medea, meed, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:2250`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:29:76
# text = "Have you come so far to seek it," exclaimed Medea, "and do you not recognize the meed of all your toils and perils, when it glitters before your eyes?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	meed	meed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	toils	toil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	glitters	glitter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | glimpse |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Medea |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **recognize** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the meed of your toils and perils |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meed=Stimulus |
| 5 | **glitter** *in a quote* | present | meed |  |  | your eyes |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location |
| 6 | **toil** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom toil «act intransitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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