--- title: But the two sons of the North Wind drew their swords, spread their p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the two sons of the North Wind drew their swords, spread their pinions, and set off through the air in pursuit of the thieves, whom they at last overtook among some islands, after a chase of hundreds of miles. Who acts: two sons, swords. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Golden Fleece., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/) / 57 # Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 57 But the two sons of the North Wind drew their swords, spread their pinions, and set off through the air in pursuit of the thieves, whom they at last overtook among some islands, after a chase of hundreds of miles. **Who acts:** two sons, swords · **What happens:** draw, spread, set off, overtake, pursue, chase · **To what, where:** swords, pinions, air, thieves, hundreds 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 (two sons, swords), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:27:57 # text = But the two sons of the North Wind drew their swords, spread their pinions, and set off through the air in pursuit of the thieves, whom they at last overtook among some islands, after a chase of hundreds of miles. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Wind Wind PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 swords sword NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 pinions pinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 pursuit pursuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 obl _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 nmod _ _ 33 overtook overtake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 34 among among ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 after after ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | past | the two sons of the North Wind | sons's swords | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 2 | **spread** | present | sons's swords *not said here* | sons's pinions | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pinion=Theme | | 3 | **set off** | infinitive | the two sons of the North Wind *not said here* | | | the air | after a chase of hundreds of miles | in pursuit of the thieves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through air=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **overtake** | past | | the thieves | | | | among some islands | tree rules | | 5 | **pursue** | | | the thieves | | | | | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **chase** | | | hundreds of miles | | | | | nom chase «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/58/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/)