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title: He was rushing straight towards the Golden Fleece, when suddenly the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 88

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He was rushing straight towards the Golden Fleece, when suddenly there was a frightful hiss, and the immense head and half the scaly body of the dragon was thrust forth (for he was twisted round the trunk of the tree on which the Fleece hung), and seizing the poor antelope, swallowed him with one snap of his jaws.

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**Who acts:** antelope, rushing, Fleece · **What happens:** rush, be, twist, hang, seize, swallow · **To what, where:** frightful hiss, head thrust, antelope, trunk, tree, poor antelope

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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 (antelope, rushing, Fleece), 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:pg976:29:88
# text = He was rushing straight towards the Golden Fleece, when suddenly there was a frightful hiss, and the immense head and half the scaly body of the dragon was thrust forth (for he was twisted round the trunk of the tree on which the Fleece hung), and seizing the poor antelope, swallowed him with one snap of his jaws.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	scaly	scaly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
32	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	twisted	twist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
38	round	round	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	61	nummod	_	_
61	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past · progressive | antelope |  |  |  |  | towards the Golden Fleece | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards fleece=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | rushing | a frightful hiss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | head thrust |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **twist** | past · passive |  | antelope |  | the trunk of the tree |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme round trunk=Trajectory |
| 5 | **hang** | past | the Fleece |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 6 | **seize** | gerund |  | the poor antelope |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antelope=Theme |
| 7 | **swallow** | past |  | antelope |  |  |  | with one snap of antelope's jaws | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 8 | **snap** |  |  | antelope's jaws |  |  |  |  | nom snap «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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