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title: At last, quite wearied out, they sat themselves down on the shore ex… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, quite wearied out, they sat themselves down on the shore exceedingly disconsolate, and thinking that the vessel must be left to rot and fall in pieces, and that they must either swim across the sea or lose the Golden Fleece. Who acts: heroes, vessel. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nath
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 19

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At last, quite wearied out, they sat themselves down on the shore exceedingly disconsolate, and thinking that the vessel must be left to rot and fall in pieces, and that they must either swim across the sea or lose the Golden Fleece.

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**Who acts:** heroes, vessel · **What happens:** weary out, sit down, think, leave, rot, fall · **To what, where:** last, heroes, shore, vessel, pieces, sea · **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 (heroes, vessel), 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:pg976:27:19
# text = At last, quite wearied out, they sat themselves down on the shore exceedingly disconsolate, and thinking that the vessel must be left to rot and fall in pieces, and that they must either swim across the sea or lose the Golden Fleece.
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	disconsolate	disconsolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
39	across	across	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weary out** | participle · passive |  | last |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | heroes *= hero* | heroes *= hero* |  | the shore and disconsolate |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | heroes *= hero* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | must · passive |  | the vessel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rot** | to-infinitive | the vessel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **fall** | infinitive | the vessel *not said here* |  |  | pieces |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=Location |
| 7 | **swim** | must | heroes *= hero* |  |  | the sea |  | either *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sea=Trajectory |
| 8 | **lose** | present | heroes *= hero* *not said here* | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Eventuality |

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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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