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title: Medea staid only long enough to take her son with her, and to steal… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Medea staid only long enough to take her son with her, and to steal the crown jewels, together with the king's best robes, and whatever other valuable things she could lay hands on; and getting into the chariot, she whipped up the snakes, and ascended high over the city. Who acts: Medea. A sentence 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 65

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Medea staid only long enough to take her son with her, and to steal the crown jewels, together with the king's best robes, and whatever other valuable things she could lay hands on; and getting into the chariot, she whipped up the snakes, and ascended high over the city.

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**Who acts:** Medea · **What happens:** take, steal, lay on, get, whip up, ascend · **To what, where:** son, crown jewels, hands, chariot, snakes, city

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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), 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:pg976:4:65
# text = Medea staid only long enough to take her son with her, and to steal the crown jewels, together with the king's best robes, and whatever other valuable things she could lay hands on; and getting into the chariot, she whipped up the snakes, and ascended high over the city.
1	Medea	medea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	staid	staid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	csubj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	punct	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	whipped	whip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
53	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	52	advmod	_	_
54	over	over	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | to-infinitive |  |  | Medea's son |  |  | with Medea | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination |
| 2 | **steal** | to-infinitive |  | the crown jewels |  |  |  | with the king's best robes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jewel=Theme |
| 3 | **lay on** | could | Medea | hands |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | Medea *not said here* |  |  | the chariot |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into chariot=Destination |
| 5 | **whip up** | past | Medea | the snakes |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent snake=Material |
| 6 | **ascend** | participle |  |  |  | the city |  | high *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over city=Initial\_Location |

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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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