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title: Scudding before the hurricane, he reached a place, which, as he afte… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Scudding before the hurricane, he reached a place, which, as he afterwards found, was called Laestrygonia, where some monstrous giants had eaten up many of his companions, and had sunk every one of his vessels, except that in which he himself sailed, by flinging great masses of rock at them, from th
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 7

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Scudding before the hurricane, he reached a place, which, as he afterwards found, was called Laestrygonia, where some monstrous giants had eaten up many of his companions, and had sunk every one of his vessels, except that in which he himself sailed, by flinging great masses of rock at them, from the cliffs along the shore.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, place · **What happens:** scud, reach, find, call, eat up, sink · **To what, where:** hurricane, place, monstrous giants, one, great masses, cliffs · **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, place), 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:pg976:15:7
# text = Scudding before the hurricane, he reached a place, which, as he afterwards found, was called Laestrygonia, where some monstrous giants had eaten up many of his companions, and had sunk every one of his vessels, except that in which he himself sailed, by flinging great masses of rock at them, from the cliffs along the shore.
1	Scudding	scud	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	Laestrygonia	Laestrygonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	vessels	vessel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	except	except	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	obl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	obl	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	47	nmod:unmarked	_	_
49	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
53	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
57	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
60	from	from	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
63	along	along	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scud** | gerund | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  | the hurricane |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before hurricane=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Ulysses | a place |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | a place |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive | a place *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **eat up** | past · perfect · passive |  | some monstrous giants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sink** | past · perfect | Ulysses *not said here* | every one of Ulysses's vessels |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 7 | **sail** | past | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | except that | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **fling** | gerund | Ulysses *not said here* | great masses of rock |  | the cliffs along the shore |  | at vessels *= vessel* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent mass=Theme at they=Destination |

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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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