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title: If the sea only happened to be deep enough, however, Lynceus could t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If the sea only happened to be deep enough, however, Lynceus could tell you exactly what kind of rocks or sands were at the bottom of it; and he often cried out to his companions, that they were sailing over heaps of sunken treasure, which yet he was none the richer for beholding. Who acts: sea, Lyn
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 12

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If the sea only happened to be deep enough, however, Lynceus could tell you exactly what kind of rocks or sands were at the bottom of it; and he often cried out to his companions, that they were sailing over heaps of sunken treasure, which yet he was none the richer for beholding.

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**Who acts:** sea, Lynceus, kind, Jason · **What happens:** happen, be, tell, cry out, sail, behold · **To what, where:** you, bottom, companions, heaps, none · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, Lynceus, kind, 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:pg976:27:12
# text = If the sea only happened to be deep enough, however, Lynceus could tell you exactly what kind of rocks or sands were at the bottom of it; and he often cried out to his companions, that they were sailing over heaps of sunken treasure, which yet he was none the richer for beholding.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	however	however	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Lynceus	Lynceus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
18	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	19	det	_	_
19	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	often	often	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
44	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
51	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
54	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	56	nsubj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	48	conj	_	_
57	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
58	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deep, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | Lynceus |  | you |  |  | however *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | what kind |  |  | the bottom |  | of sea; exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | Jason |  | Jason's companions |  |  | often *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to companion=Recipient |
| 6 | **sail** | past · progressive | Lynceus |  |  | heaps of sunken treasure |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over heap=Trajectory |
| 7 | **is a** | past | Jason | none |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **behold** | gerund | Lynceus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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