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title: But in my opinion, the most remarkable of this famous company were t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But in my opinion, the most remarkable of this famous company were two sons of the North Wind (airy youngsters, and of rather a blustering disposition) who had wings on their shoulders, and, in case of a calm, could puff out their cheeks, and blow almost as fresh a breeze as their father. Who acts: 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 8

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But in my opinion, the most remarkable of this famous company were two sons of the North Wind (airy youngsters, and of rather a blustering disposition) who had wings on their shoulders, and, in case of a calm, could puff out their cheeks, and blow almost as fresh a breeze as their father.

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**Who acts:** remarkable, two sons, case, my · **What happens:** be, bluster, have, puff out, blow, opine · **To what, where:** two sons, opinion, wings, shoulders, cheeks, fresh breeze

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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 (remarkable, two sons, case, my), 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:pg976:27:8
# text = But in my opinion, the most remarkable of this famous company were two sons of the North Wind (airy youngsters, and of rather a blustering disposition) who had wings on their shoulders, and, in case of a calm, could puff out their cheeks, and blow almost as fresh a breeze as their father.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	remarkable	remarkable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	youngsters	youngster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	29	obl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	blustering	bluster	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	amod	_	_
29	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
33	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	puff	puff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	parataxis	_	_
48	out	out	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
54	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	as	as	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
59	as	as	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the remarkable of this famous company | two sons |  | my opinion |  | of the North Wind | tree rules |
| 2 | **bluster** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | two sons | wings |  | wings's shoulders |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 4 | **puff out** | could | case of a calm | wings's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cheek=Source |
| 5 | **blow** | infinitive | case of a calm *not said here* | a fresh breeze |  |  |  | as wings's father | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent breeze=Patient |
| 6 | **opine** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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