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title: Though not a very broad river in the dry seasons of the year, it was… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Though not a very broad river in the dry seasons of the year, it was now swollen by heavy rains and by the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus; and it thundered so loudly, and looked so wild and dangerous, that Jason, bold as he was, thought it prudent to pause upon the brink. Who acts
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 24

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Though not a very broad river in the dry seasons of the year, it was now swollen by heavy rains and by the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus; and it thundered so loudly, and looked so wild and dangerous, that Jason, bold as he was, thought it prudent to pause upon the brink.

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**Who acts:** heavy rains, river, Jason · **What happens:** swell, thunder, look, be, pause, melt · **To what, where:** river, brink, snow

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (heavy rains, river, Jason), 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:pg976:25:24
# text = Though not a very broad river in the dry seasons of the year, it was now swollen by heavy rains and by the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus; and it thundered so loudly, and looked so wild and dangerous, that Jason, bold as he was, thought it prudent to pause upon the brink.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	swollen	swell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	melting	melting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	parataxis	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	advcl	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
62	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | past · passive | heavy rains and the melting of the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus | river |  |  | now |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient subject=Extent |
| 2 | **thunder** | past | river |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | Jason |  |  |  |  | prudent, think *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pause** | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* |  |  | the brink |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon brink=Location |
| 6 | **melt** |  |  | the snow on the sides of Mount Olympus |  |  |  |  | nom melting «process transitive»: of=patient |

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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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