---
title: But when the wicked Medea saw this new turn of affairs, she hurried… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the wicked Medea saw this new turn of affairs, she hurried out of the room, and going to her private chamber, lost no time to setting her enchantments to work. Who acts: wicked Medea, Medea. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/63/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Minotaur., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/) / 63

# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 63

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But when the wicked Medea saw this new turn of affairs, she hurried out of the room, and going to her private chamber, lost no time to setting her enchantments to work.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** wicked Medea, Medea · **What happens:** see, hurry, go, lose, set, work · **To what, where:** new turn, room, private chamber, enchantments

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (wicked Medea, Medea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg976:4:63
# text = But when the wicked Medea saw this new turn of affairs, she hurried out of the room, and going to her private chamber, lost no time to setting her enchantments to work.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the wicked Medea | this new turn of affairs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hurry** | past | Medea |  |  | the room |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out room=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | Medea's private chamber |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lose** | past | Medea *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | gerund | Medea *not said here* | Medea's enchantments |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient enchantment=Result |
| 6 | **work** | to-infinitive | Medea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **enchant** |  | Medea |  |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/62/)
- next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/64/)
- ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/)