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title: Immediately the fifty heroes got on board, and seizing their oars, h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately the fifty heroes got on board, and seizing their oars, held them perpendicularly in the air, while Orpheus (who liked such a task far better than rowing) swept his fingers across the harp. Who acts: fifty heroes, Orpheus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golde
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 23

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Immediately the fifty heroes got on board, and seizing their oars, held them perpendicularly in the air, while Orpheus (who liked such a task far better than rowing) swept his fingers across the harp.

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**Who acts:** fifty heroes, Orpheus · **What happens:** get, seize, hold, like, row, sweep · **To what, where:** board, oars, air, task, fingers, harp

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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 (fifty heroes, Orpheus), 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:pg976:27:23
# text = Immediately the fifty heroes got on board, and seizing their oars, held them perpendicularly in the air, while Orpheus (who liked such a task far better than rowing) swept his fingers across the harp.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	perpendicularly	perpendicularly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
22	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
30	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	rowing	row	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	across	across	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the fifty heroes |  |  | board |  | immediately *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on board=Source |
| 2 | **seize** | gerund | the fifty heroes *not said here* | heroes's oars |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | past |  | oars *= oar* |  | the air |  | perpendicularly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in air=Location |
| 4 | **like** | past | Orpheus | such task |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot task=Theme |
| 5 | **row** | gerund | Orpheus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sweep** | past | Orpheus | Orpheus's fingers |  | the harp |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme across harp=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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