--- title: They brought along with them a great many beautiful shells; and sitt… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They brought along with them a great many beautiful shells; and sitting down on the moist sand, where the surf wave broke over them, they busied themselves in making a necklace, which they hung round Proserpina's neck. Who acts: dragons, surf wave. 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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 (dragons, surf wave), 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:pg976:20:12 # text = They brought along with them a great many beautiful shells; and sitting down on the moist sand, where the surf wave broke over them, they busied themselves in making a necklace, which they hung round Proserpina's neck. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 along along ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 moist moist ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 24 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 surf surf NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 25 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 busied busy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obj _ _ 31 in in SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 round round ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 Proserpina Proserpina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 41 's 's PART POS _ 40 case _ _ 42 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring along** | past | dragons *= dragon* | a great many beautiful shells | | | | with faces *= face*; along *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | | 2 | **sit down** | gerund | dragons *= dragon* *not said here* | | | the moist sand | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location | | 3 | **break** | past | the surf wave | | | | | over dragons *= dragon* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over they=Location | | 4 | **busy** | past | dragons *= dragon* | dragons *= dragon* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | gerund | dragons *= dragon* *not said here* | a necklace | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset necklace=Product | | 6 | **hang** | past | dragons *= dragon* | a necklace | | | | round Proserpina's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/13/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/)