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title: It was bordered, too, with a great many sweet-smelling flowers, such… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was bordered, too, with a great many sweet-smelling flowers, such as the mariners had never seen before. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 10

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It was bordered, too, with a great many sweet-smelling flowers, such as the mariners had never seen before.

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**What happens:** border, smell, not see · **To what, where:** pathway, great many smelling flowers

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg976:16:10
# text = It was bordered, too, with a great many sweet-smelling flowers, such as the mariners had never seen before.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	amod	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **border** | past · passive |  | pathway |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past · perfect |  | a great many smelling flowers *not said here* |  |  |  | such the mariners; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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