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title: Thus triumphantly did the Argo sail out of the harbor, amidst the hu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 27

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Thus triumphantly did the Argo sail out of the harbor, amidst the huzzas and good wishes of everybody except the wicked old Pelias, who stood on a promontory, scowling at her, and wishing that he could blow out of his lungs the tempest of wrath that was in his heart, and so sink the galley with all on board.

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**Who acts:** you, wicked old Pelias, Orpheus, wrath, everybody · **What happens:** do, stand, scowl, wish, blow out, be · **To what, where:** Argo sail, harbor, promontory, lungs, heart, galley · **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 (you, wicked old Pelias, Orpheus, wrath), 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:pg976:27:27
# text = Thus triumphantly did the Argo sail out of the harbor, amidst the huzzas and good wishes of everybody except the wicked old Pelias, who stood on a promontory, scowling at her, and wishing that he could blow out of his lungs the tempest of wrath that was in his heart, and so sink the galley with all on board.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Argo	Argo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	huzzas	huzza	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nmod	_	_
20	except	except	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	promontory	promontory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	scowling	scowl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	sink	sink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	60	nmod	_	_
63	on	on	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | you *not said here* | the Argo sail |  | the harbor |  | thus, triumphantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the wicked old Pelias |  |  | a promontory |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on promontory=Location |
| 3 | **scowl** | gerund | the wicked old Pelias *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at vessel | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wish** | gerund | the wicked old Pelias *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **blow out** | could | Orpheus | Orpheus's lungs |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent tempest=Beneficiary lung=Product |
| 6 | **is** | past | wrath |  |  | Orpheus's heart |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sink** | imperative | you *not said here* | the galley |  |  |  | with all | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent galley=Patient with all=Instrument |
| 8 | **wish** |  | everybody |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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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