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title: In so doing, however, she unintentionally let fall about five hundre… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 69

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In so doing, however, she unintentionally let fall about five hundred diamonds of the first water, together with a thousand great pearls, and two thousand emeralds, rubies, sapphires, opals, and topazes, to which she had helped herself out of the king's strong box.

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**Who acts:** Medea · **What happens:** do, let, fall about, help · **To what, where:** hundred diamonds, Medea, strong box

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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:pg976:4:69
# text = In so doing, however, she unintentionally let fall about five hundred diamonds of the first water, together with a thousand great pearls, and two thousand emeralds, rubies, sapphires, opals, and topazes, to which she had helped herself out of the king's strong box.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	unintentionally	unintentionally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	_
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	emeralds	emerald	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	sapphires	sapphire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	opals	opal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	topazes	topaz	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obl	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl	_	_
46	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	45	obj	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	's	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | Medea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | past | Medea |  |  |  |  | unintentionally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall about** | infinitive | Medea *not said here* | hundred diamonds of the first water |  |  |  | with thousand great pearls; thousand emeralds and rubies and sapphires and opals and topazes *obl*; together *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient diamond=Result |
| 4 | **help** | past · perfect | Medea | Medea |  | the king's strong box |  | to thousand emeralds and rubies and sapphires and opals and topazes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary |

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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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