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title: The next day, when the Argonauts were about setting sail, down came… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day, when the Argonauts were about setting sail, down came these terrible giants, stepping a hundred yards at a stride, brandishing their six arms apiece, and looking formidable, so far aloft in the air. Who acts: Argonauts, next day. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 47

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The next day, when the Argonauts were about setting sail, down came these terrible giants, stepping a hundred yards at a stride, brandishing their six arms apiece, and looking formidable, so far aloft in the air.

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**Who acts:** Argonauts, next day · **What happens:** set, come, step, brandish, look · **To what, where:** sail, terrible giants, hundred yards, stride, six arms

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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, next day), 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:pg976:27:47
# text = The next day, when the Argonauts were about setting sail, down came these terrible giants, stepping a hundred yards at a stride, brandishing their six arms apiece, and looking formidable, so far aloft in the air.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	stepping	step	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stride	stride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	brandishing	brandish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	apiece	apiece	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
35	formidable	formidable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
39	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · progressive | the Argonauts | sail |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | the next day | this terrible giants |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location giant=Theme |
| 3 | **step** | gerund | the next day *not said here* | hundred yards |  | a stride |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location yard=Theme |
| 4 | **brandish** | gerund | the next day *not said here* | giants's six arms |  |  |  | apiece *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | the next day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | formidable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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