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title: But the Argonauts saw that this good king looked downcast and very m… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Argonauts saw that this good king looked downcast and very much troubled, and they therefore inquired of him what was the matter. Who acts: Argonauts, good king. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 38

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But the Argonauts saw that this good king looked downcast and very much troubled, and they therefore inquired of him what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** Argonauts, good king · **What happens:** see, look, inquire, be · **To what, where:** downcast, matter · **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 (Argonauts, good king), 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:pg976:27:38
# text = But the Argonauts saw that this good king looked downcast and very much troubled, and they therefore inquired of him what was the matter.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	downcast	downcast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Argonauts |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | past | this good king | downcast |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme downcast=Attribute |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | Argonauts *= argonaut* |  |  |  |  | of king; therefore *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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