--- title: Instead of setting out, however, he summoned the whole crew together… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Instead of setting out, however, he summoned the whole crew together, and told them it was in vain to hope that he could kill a stag every day for their dinner, and therefore it was advisable to think of some other mode of satisfying their hunger. Who acts: Ulysses, it, other mode, appetites. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, it, other mode, appetites), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:15:47 # text = Instead of setting out, however, he summoned the whole crew together, and told them it was in vain to hope that he could kill a stag every day for their dinner, and therefore it was advisable to think of some other mode of satisfying their hunger. 1 Instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 3 mark _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 setting set VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 however however ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 summoned summon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 hope hope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 csubj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 advisable advisable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 csubj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 46 det _ _ 45 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 mode mode NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 47 of of SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 48 satisfying satisfy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 acl _ _ 49 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set out** | gerund | Ulysses *not said here* | | | | | however *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **summon** | past | Ulysses | the whole crew | | | | together *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Recipient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Ulysses *not said here* | | appetites *= appetite* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | past | it | | | | | vain *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **hope** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **kill** | could | Ulysses | a stag | | | day | for appetites's dinner | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | it | | | | | advisable, therefore *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | of some other mode | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **satisfy** | gerund | some other mode *not said here* | appetites's hunger | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | | 10 | **hunger** | | appetites *= appetite* | | | | | | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/48/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/)