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title: Orpheus thrummed away briskly, and the galley slid at once into the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Orpheus thrummed away briskly, and the galley slid at once into the sea, dipping her prow so deeply that the figure-head drank the wave with its marvelous lips, and rising again as buoyant as a swan. Who acts: Orpheus, galley, figure head. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 25

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Orpheus thrummed away briskly, and the galley slid at once into the sea, dipping her prow so deeply that the figure-head drank the wave with its marvelous lips, and rising again as buoyant as a swan.

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**Who acts:** Orpheus, galley, figure head · **What happens:** thrum away, slide, dip, drink, rise · **To what, where:** sea, prow, wave

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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 (Orpheus, galley, figure head), 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:pg976:27:25
# text = Orpheus thrummed away briskly, and the galley slid at once into the sea, dipping her prow so deeply that the figure-head drank the wave with its marvelous lips, and rising again as buoyant as a swan.
1	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thrummed	thrum	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	briskly	briskly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prow	prow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	buoyant	buoyant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrum away** | past | Orpheus |  |  |  |  | away, briskly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **slide** | past | the galley |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme at once=Source into sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **dip** | gerund | the galley *not said here* | Tiphys's prow |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prow=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | past | the figure head | the wave |  |  |  | with head's marvelous lips | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund | Orpheus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | buoyant *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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