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title: This chariot, in fact, was the vehicle that first brought her to Ath… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This chariot, in fact, was the vehicle that first brought her to Athens, where she had done nothing but mischief ever since her arrival. Who acts: chariot, Medea. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 109

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This chariot, in fact, was the vehicle that first brought her to Athens, where she had done nothing but mischief ever since her arrival.

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**Who acts:** chariot, Medea · **What happens:** be, bring, do, arrive · **To what, where:** vehicle, Athens, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chariot, 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:pg976:3:109
# text = This chariot, in fact, was the vehicle that first brought her to Athens, where she had done nothing but mischief ever since her arrival.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
25	since	since	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this chariot and fact | the vehicle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past |  | the vehicle | Athens |  |  | first *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument that=Theme she=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | Medea | nothing |  |  | since Medea's arrival; ever |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **arrive** |  | Medea |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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