--- title: After going through such troubles as these, you cannot wonder that K… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After going through such troubles as these, you cannot wonder that King Ulysses was glad to moor his tempest-beaten bark in a quiet cove of the green island, which I began with telling you about. Who acts: you, Ulysses, green island. 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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 (you, Ulysses, green island), 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:pg976:15:8 # text = After going through such troubles as these, you cannot wonder that King Ulysses was glad to moor his tempest-beaten bark in a quiet cove of the green island, which I began with telling you about. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 3 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 troubles trouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 wonder wonder VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 Ulysses Ulysses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 ccomp _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 moor moor VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 21 tempest tempest NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 cove cove NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 with with SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 38 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 about about ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | such troubles | | as these | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through trouble=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **not** **wonder** *speech: ask* | can | you | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | Ulysses King | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **moor** | to-infinitive | Ulysses King *not said here* | Ulysses's beaten bark | | a quiet cove of the green island | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bark=Theme in cove=Destination | | 5 | **beat** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **begin** | past | the green island | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the green island *not said here* | | you | | | about *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/9/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/)