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title: But the other (a little boy, named Phrixus) was brought safe ashore… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the other (a little boy, named Phrixus) was brought safe ashore by the faithful ram, who, however, was so exhausted that he immediately lay down and died. Who acts: faithful ram, boy. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree an
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 32

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But the other (a little boy, named Phrixus) was brought safe ashore by the faithful ram, who, however, was so exhausted that he immediately lay down and died.

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**Who acts:** faithful ram, boy · **What happens:** name, bring, be, lie down, die · **To what, where:** little boy, other

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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 (faithful ram, boy), 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:pg976:27:32
# text = But the other (a little boy, named Phrixus) was brought safe ashore by the faithful ram, who, however, was so exhausted that he immediately lay down and died.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	Phrixus	Phrixus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	however	however	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	exhausted	exhausted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | a little boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | past · passive | the faithful ram | the other |  |  |  | ashore, safe *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the faithful ram |  |  |  |  | exhausted, however *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie down** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | down, immediately *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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