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title: It originally belonged, it appears, to a Boeotian ram, who had taken… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It originally belonged, it appears, to a Boeotian ram, who had taken on his back two children, when in danger of their lives, and fled with them over land and sea as far as Colchis. Who acts: voyage, it, Boeotian ram. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 30

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It originally belonged, it appears, to a Boeotian ram, who had taken on his back two children, when in danger of their lives, and fled with them over land and sea as far as Colchis.

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**Who acts:** voyage, it, Boeotian ram · **What happens:** belong, appear, take, flee · **To what, where:** Boeotian ram, back, land

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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 (voyage, it, Boeotian ram), 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:pg976:27:30
# text = It originally belonged, it appears, to a Boeotian ram, who had taken on his back two children, when in danger of their lives, and fled with them over land and sea as far as Colchis.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Boeotian	boeotian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | voyage |  |  |  |  | originally *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | present | it | a Boeotian ram |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ram=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past · perfect | a Boeotian ram |  |  | Orpheus's back |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination |
| 4 | **flee** | past | voyage *not said here* |  |  | land and sea |  | with lives *= life*; far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over land=Initial\_Location |

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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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