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title: This vapor rose high in the air, and, meeting with a breeze, was waf… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This vapor rose high in the air, and, meeting with a breeze, was wafted seaward, and made to pass over the heads of the hungry mariners. Who acts: vapor. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 72

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This vapor rose high in the air, and, meeting with a breeze, was wafted seaward, and made to pass over the heads of the hungry mariners.

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**Who acts:** vapor · **What happens:** rise, meet, waft, make, pass · **To what, where:** air, seaward, heads

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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 (vapor), 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:pg976:15:72
# text = This vapor rose high in the air, and, meeting with a breeze, was wafted seaward, and made to pass over the heads of the hungry mariners.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	wafted	waft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	seaward	seaward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | this vapor |  |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund | this vapor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a breeze | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with breeze=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **waft** | past · passive | this vapor *not said here* | seaward |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: seaward=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | participle | this vapor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | to-infinitive | this vapor *not said here* |  |  | the heads of the hungry mariners |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over head=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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