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description: For, only a little while before he came thither, he had met with a terrible hurricane, or rather a great many hurricanes at once, which drove his fleet of vessels into a strange part of the sea, where neither himself nor any of his mariners had ever sailed. Who acts: city, any. A sentence of «Tangle
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 3

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For, only a little while before he came thither, he had met with a terrible hurricane, or rather a great many hurricanes at once, which drove his fleet of vessels into a strange part of the sea, where neither himself nor any of his mariners had ever sailed.

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**Who acts:** city, any · **What happens:** come, meet, drive, sail · **To what, where:** great many hurricanes, fleet, strange part

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city, any), 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:pg976:15:3
# text = For, only a little while before he came thither, he had met with a terrible hurricane, or rather a great many hurricanes at once, which drove his fleet of vessels into a strange part of the sea, where neither himself nor any of his mariners had ever sailed.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
44	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc:preconj	_	_
45	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	nmod	_	_
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	53	cc	_	_
47	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	53	nsubj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	53	advmod	_	_
53	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | city |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past · perfect | city | a great many hurricanes |  |  | while | with a terrible hurricane | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hurricane=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **drive** | past |  | city's fleet of vessels |  | a strange part of the sea  city |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fleet=Theme into part=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sail** | past · perfect | any |  |  |  | ever |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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