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title: Medea, almost bursting with rage, uttered precisely such a hiss as o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Medea, almost bursting with rage, uttered precisely such a hiss as one of her own snakes, only ten times more venomous and spiteful; and glaring fiercely out of the blaze of the chariot, she shook her hands over the multitude below, as if she were scattering a million of curses among them. Who acts:
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 68

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Medea, almost bursting with rage, uttered precisely such a hiss as one of her own snakes, only ten times more venomous and spiteful; and glaring fiercely out of the blaze of the chariot, she shook her hands over the multitude below, as if she were scattering a million of curses among them.

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**Who acts:** Medea, chariot · **What happens:** burst, utter, glare, shake, scatter, blaze · **To what, where:** hiss, blaze, hands, multitude, million

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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, chariot), 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:pg976:4:68
# text = Medea, almost bursting with rage, uttered precisely such a hiss as one of her own snakes, only ten times more venomous and spiteful; and glaring fiercely out of the blaze of the chariot, she shook her hands over the multitude below, as if she were scattering a million of curses among them.
1	Medea	medea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
9	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	glaring	glare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
30	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	below	below	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
57	among	among	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | gerund | Medea |  |  |  |  | with rage; almost *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle |  | such hiss |  |  |  | as one of Medea's own snakes; precisely *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hiss=Topic |
| 3 | **glare** | gerund | Medea *not said here* |  |  | the blaze of the chariot |  | fiercely *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out blaze=Location |
| 4 | **shake** | past | Medea | Medea's hands |  | the multitude |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over multitude=Trajectory |
| 5 | **scatter** | past · progressive | Medea | a million of curses |  |  |  | among chariot | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent million=Theme among they=Destination |
| 6 | **blaze** |  | the chariot |  |  |  |  |  | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=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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