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title: Another strange adventure happened when the voyagers came to Thrace,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Another strange adventure happened when the voyagers came to Thrace, where they found a poor blind king, named Phineus, deserted by his subjects, and living in a very sorrowful way, all by himself. Who acts: strange adventure, voyagers. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Go
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 52

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Another strange adventure happened when the voyagers came to Thrace, where they found a poor blind king, named Phineus, deserted by his subjects, and living in a very sorrowful way, all by himself.

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**Who acts:** strange adventure, voyagers · **What happens:** happen, come, find, name, desert, live · **To what, where:** Thrace, poor blind king, Phineus, sorrowful way

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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 (strange adventure, voyagers), 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:pg976:27:52
# text = Another strange adventure happened when the voyagers came to Thrace, where they found a poor blind king, named Phineus, deserted by his subjects, and living in a very sorrowful way, all by himself.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Thrace	Thrace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	Phineus	Phineus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	all	all	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | another strange adventure |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the voyagers |  |  | Thrace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to thrace=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | voyagers *= voyager* | a poor blind king |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  | a poor blind king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **desert** | participle |  | Phineus *not said here* |  |  |  | by Phineus's subjects | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | another strange adventure *not said here* |  |  | a sorrowful way |  | by Phineus | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=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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