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title: But in each of these stout bags, King Aeolus, the ruler of the winds… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But in each of these stout bags, King Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, had tied up a tempest, and had given it to Ulysses to keep in order that he might be sure of a favorable passage homeward to Ithaca; and when the strings were loosened, forth rushed the whistling blasts, like air out of a blown bl
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 5

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But in each of these stout bags, King Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, had tied up a tempest, and had given it to Ulysses to keep in order that he might be sure of a favorable passage homeward to Ithaca; and when the strings were loosened, forth rushed the whistling blasts, like air out of a blown bladder, whitening the sea with foam, and scattering the vessels nobody could tell whither.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, whistling, scattering · **What happens:** tie up, give, keep, be, loosen, rush · **To what, where:** each, tempest, Ulysses, order, strings, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ulysses, whistling, scattering), 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:pg976:15:5
# text = But in each of these stout bags, King Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, had tied up a tempest, and had given it to Ulysses to keep in order that he might be sure of a favorable passage homeward to Ithaca; and when the strings were loosened, forth rushed the whistling blasts, like air out of a blown bladder, whitening the sea with foam, and scattering the vessels nobody could tell whither.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Aeolus	Aeolus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	80	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
38	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	favorable	favorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Ithaca	Ithaca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	parataxis	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	whistling	whistling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	blasts	blast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	like	like	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
62	out	out	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
65	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	66	amod	_	_
66	bladder	bladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
68	whitening	whiten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	advcl	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
70	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obj	_	_
71	with	with	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
75	scattering	scatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	80	csubj	_	_
76	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
77	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	75	obj	_	_
78	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	75	obj	_	_
79	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	80	aux	_	_
80	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
81	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	80	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	80	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | past · perfect · passive |  | each |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient tempest=Result |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect |  | tempest | Ulysses |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ulysses=Recipient |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | order |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location |
| 4 | **is** | might | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | of a favorable passage homeward to Ithaca; sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **loosen** | past · passive |  | the strings |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **rush** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like air out a blown bladder; forth *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 7 | **blast** | present | the whistling |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **blow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **whiten** | gerund |  | the sea |  |  |  | with foam | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent sea=Patient with foam=Instrument |
| 10 | **scatter** | gerund |  | the vessels |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | scattering |  |  |  |  | whither *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP 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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