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title: While the Argonauts remained on this island, they saw a small vessel… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While the Argonauts remained on this island, they saw a small vessel approaching the shore, in which were two young men of princely demeanor, and exceedingly handsome, as young princes generally were, in those days. Who acts: Argonauts, small vessel. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Haw
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 74

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While the Argonauts remained on this island, they saw a small vessel approaching the shore, in which were two young men of princely demeanor, and exceedingly handsome, as young princes generally were, in those days.

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**Who acts:** Argonauts, small vessel · **What happens:** remain, see, approach, be · **To what, where:** island, small vessel, shore, two young men

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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, small vessel), 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:pg976:27:74
# text = While the Argonauts remained on this island, they saw a small vessel approaching the shore, in which were two young men of princely demeanor, and exceedingly handsome, as young princes generally were, in those days.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	demeanor	demeanor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the Argonauts |  |  | this island |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | Argonauts *= argonaut* | a small vessel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund | a small vessel *not said here* | the shore |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | two young men |  |  |  | of princely demeanor | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | in that days | generally *property* | 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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