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title: So the head carpenter and all his journeymen and apprentices began t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the head carpenter and all his journeymen and apprentices began their work; and for a good while afterwards, there they were, busily employed, hewing out the timbers, and making a great clatter with their hammers; until the new ship, which was called the Argo, seemed to be quite ready for sea. Wh
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 77

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So the head carpenter and all his journeymen and apprentices began their work; and for a good while afterwards, there they were, busily employed, hewing out the timbers, and making a great clatter with their hammers; until the new ship, which was called the Argo, seemed to be quite ready for sea.

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**Who acts:** head carpenter, carpenter · **What happens:** begin, employ, hew out, make, call, seem · **To what, where:** work, carpenter, timbers, great clatter, new ship · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (head carpenter, carpenter), 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:pg976:26:77
# text = So the head carpenter and all his journeymen and apprentices began their work; and for a good while afterwards, there they were, busily employed, hewing out the timbers, and making a great clatter with their hammers; until the new ship, which was called the Argo, seemed to be quite ready for sea.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	journeymen	journeyman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	apprentices	apprentice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	busily	busily	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	hewing	hew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	timbers	timber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	hammers	hammer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
43	until	until	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Argo	Argo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
57	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
59	for	for	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the head carpenter and Argus's journeymen and apprentices | carpenter's work |  |  | while |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **employ** | past · passive |  | carpenter |  | there |  | busily *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hew out** | gerund |  | the timbers |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timber=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | gerund |  | a great clatter |  |  |  | with carpenter's hammers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clatter=Product |
| 5 | **call** | past · passive |  | the new ship |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for sea; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **work** |  | carpenter |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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