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title: As it approached, Medea tossed the contents of the gold box right do… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As it approached, Medea tossed the contents of the gold box right down the monster's wide-open throat. Who acts: foot, 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 99

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As it approached, Medea tossed the contents of the gold box right down the monster's wide-open throat.

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**Who acts:** foot, Medea · **What happens:** approach, toss · **To what, where:** contents

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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 (foot, 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:pg976:29:99
# text = As it approached, Medea tossed the contents of the gold box right down the monster's wide-open throat.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **toss** | past | Medea | the contents of the gold box |  |  |  | down the monster's open throat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=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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