Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 71

At length, when they had gone farther and farther into the heart of the duskiness, Medea squeezed Jason's hand.

Who acts: boughs, Medea · What happens: go, squeeze · To what, where: length, hand

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boughs, Medea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 gone	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 gone	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 farther	cc
10	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 farther	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 heart	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heart	det
13	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 duskiness	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 duskiness	det
16	duskiness	duskiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heart	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 squeezed	punct
18	Medea	Medea	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 squeezed	nsubj
19	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	advcl
20	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 hand	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Jason	case
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 squeezed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	boughs = bough			length		into the heart of the duskiness; far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_Location
2	squeeze	past	Medea	Jason's hand					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

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.

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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