---
title: He inquired of one of the multitude what town it was near by, and wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He inquired of one of the multitude what town it was near by, and why so many persons were here assembled together. Who acts: Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/95/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Golden Fleece., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/) / 95

# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 95

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He inquired of one of the multitude what town it was near by, and why so many persons were here assembled together.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Jason · **What happens:** inquire, assemble · **To what, where:** many persons

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Jason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg976:25:95
# text = He inquired of one of the multitude what town it was near by, and why so many persons were here assembled together.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nmod	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	near	near	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Jason |  |  |  |  | of one of the multitude | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of one=Recipient |
| 2 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | many persons |  | here |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/94/)
- next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/96/)
- ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/)