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title: As there was no help for it, Eurylochus immediately set forth at the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As there was no help for it, Eurylochus immediately set forth at the head of his twenty-two followers, who went off in a very melancholy state of mind, leaving their friends in hardly better spirits than themselves. Who acts: help, Eurylochus, two followers. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Natha
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 69

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As there was no help for it, Eurylochus immediately set forth at the head of his twenty-two followers, who went off in a very melancholy state of mind, leaving their friends in hardly better spirits than themselves.

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**Who acts:** help, Eurylochus, two followers · **What happens:** be, set, go off, leave · **To what, where:** head, melancholy state, friends, better spirits

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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 (help, Eurylochus, two followers), 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:pg976:15:69
# text = As there was no help for it, Eurylochus immediately set forth at the head of his twenty-two followers, who went off in a very melancholy state of mind, leaving their friends in hardly better spirits than themselves.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no help for word |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | past | Eurylochus |  |  | the head of Eurylochus's two followers |  | forth, immediately *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at head=Destination |
| 3 | **go off** | past | Eurylochus's two followers |  |  | a melancholy state of mind |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in state=Location |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | Eurylochus's two followers *not said here* | followers's friends |  | better spirits than spirits |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme in spirit=Location |

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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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