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title: He walked swiftly along, thinking of King Agenor and Queen Telephass… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He walked swiftly along, thinking of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa, and his brothers, and the friendly Thasus, all of whom he had left behind him, at one point of his pilgrimage or another, and never expected to see them any more. Who acts: mariner, friendly Thasus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tale
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 12

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He walked swiftly along, thinking of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa, and his brothers, and the friendly Thasus, all of whom he had left behind him, at one point of his pilgrimage or another, and never expected to see them any more.

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**Who acts:** mariner, friendly Thasus · **What happens:** walk, think, leave, not expect, see, point · **To what, where:** brothers, one point, friendly Thasus, pilgrimage

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mariner, friendly Thasus), 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:pg976:12:12
# text = He walked swiftly along, thinking of King Agenor and Queen Telephassa, and his brothers, and the friendly Thasus, all of whom he had left behind him, at one point of his pilgrimage or another, and never expected to see them any more.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	any	any	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | mariner | mariner's brothers |  |  |  | along, swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | mariner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of King Agenor and Queen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | mariner |  |  | one point of mariner's pilgrimage |  | behind bull | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location |
| 4 | **not** **expect** | participle · passive |  | the friendly Thasus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the friendly Thasus *not said here* | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 6 | **point** |  |  | mariner's pilgrimage |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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