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title: But Medea guessed how the king felt, and would not suffer him to yie… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Medea guessed how the king felt, and would not suffer him to yield to these natural sensibilities; although they were the voice of his deepest heart, telling him as plainly as it could speak, that here was our dear son, and Aethra's son, coming to claim him for a father. Who acts: Medea, king, b
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 31

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But Medea guessed how the king felt, and would not suffer him to yield to these natural sensibilities; although they were the voice of his deepest heart, telling him as plainly as it could speak, that here was our dear son, and Aethra's son, coming to claim him for a father.

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**Who acts:** Medea, king, brow, heart · **What happens:** guess, feel, not suffer, yield, be, tell · **To what, where:** king, voice, dear son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Medea, king, brow, heart), 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:pg976:4:31
# text = But Medea guessed how the king felt, and would not suffer him to yield to these natural sensibilities; although they were the voice of his deepest heart, telling him as plainly as it could speak, that here was our dear son, and Aethra's son, coming to claim him for a father.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sensibilities	sensibility	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
41	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | Medea |  |  |  |  | Aethra's son *vocative* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **suffer** | would | the king *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **yield** | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this natural sensibilities | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sensibility=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | brow | the voice |  |  |  | of king's deepest heart | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Medea *not said here* |  | king |  |  | plainly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 7 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | past |  | our dear son |  | here |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **come** | gerund | Medea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **claim** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Medea *not said here* | king |  |  |  | for a father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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