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title: As Jason drew near, he heard the Talking Image calling to him with m… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As Jason drew near, he heard the Talking Image calling to him with more than ordinary eagerness, in its grave, sweet voice: Who acts: Jason, Talking Image. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 6, sentence 1

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As Jason drew near, he heard the Talking Image calling to him with more than ordinary eagerness, in its grave, sweet voice:

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**Who acts:** Jason, Talking Image · **What happens:** draw, hear, call · **To what, where:** Talking Image, grave, Jason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, Talking Image), 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:pg976:30:1
# text = As Jason drew near, he heard the Talking Image calling to him with more than ordinary eagerness, in its grave, sweet voice:
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Jason |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Jason | the Talking Image |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | the Talking Image *not said here* | eagerness's grave and sweet voice | Jason |  |  | with ordinary eagerness | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent grave=Topic to he=Recipient |

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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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