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title: As soon as they could furbish up their helmets and shields, therefor… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as they could furbish up their helmets and shields, therefore, and gird on their trusty swords, they came thronging to Iolchos, and clambered on board the new galley. Who acts: dangers. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency t
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 110

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As soon as they could furbish up their helmets and shields, therefore, and gird on their trusty swords, they came thronging to Iolchos, and clambered on board the new galley.

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**Who acts:** dangers · **What happens:** furbish up, come, throng, clamber · **To what, where:** helmets, Iolchos, new galley

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dangers), 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:pg976:26:110
# text = As soon as they could furbish up their helmets and shields, therefore, and gird on their trusty swords, they came thronging to Iolchos, and clambered on board the new galley.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	furbish	furbish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gird	gird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	trusty	trusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	thronging	throng	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Iolchos	Iolchos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	clambered	clamber	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	board	board	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furbish up** | could | dangers *= danger* | dangers's helmets and shields |  |  |  | gird on dangers's trusty swords *obl*; soon, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | dangers *= danger* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throng** | gerund | dangers *= danger* *not said here* |  | Iolchos |  |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **clamber** | participle | dangers *= danger* *not said here* |  |  | the new galley |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on galley=Trajectory |

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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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