--- title: "Well, Jason," whispered Medea (for she was ill natured, as all ench… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Well, Jason," whispered Medea (for she was ill natured, as all enchantresses are, and wanted to make the bold youth tremble), "what do you think now of your prospect of winning the Golden Fleece?" Who acts: Jason, enchantresses, you, prospect. 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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 (Jason, enchantresses, you, prospect), 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:pg976:29:93 # text = "Well, Jason," whispered Medea (for she was ill natured, as all enchantresses are, and wanted to make the bold youth tremble), "what do you think now of your prospect of winning the Golden Fleece?" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 Medea Medea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 natured nature VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 enchantresses enchantress NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 bold bold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 tremble tremble NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 33 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 36 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 prospect prospect NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 40 of of SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 winning win VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 Fleece Fleece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whisper** *speech: ask* | past | Jason | Medea | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medea=Topic | | 2 | **nature** | past · passive | | Medea | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **does** | present | all enchantresses | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **want** | past | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | the bold youth tremble | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tremble=Product | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | your prospect | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme prospect=Attribute | | 7 | **win** *in a quote* | gerund | your prospect *not said here* | the Golden Fleece | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Eventuality | | 8 | **prospect** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom prospect «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/94/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/)