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title: And Orpheus (whose custom it was to set everything to music) began t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Orpheus (whose custom it was to set everything to music) began to harp and sing most gloriously, and made every mother's son of them feel as if nothing in this world were so delectable as to fight dragons, and nothing so truly honorable as to be eaten up at one mouthful, in case of the worst. Wh
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 3

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And Orpheus (whose custom it was to set everything to music) began to harp and sing most gloriously, and made every mother's son of them feel as if nothing in this world were so delectable as to fight dragons, and nothing so truly honorable as to be eaten up at one mouthful, in case of the worst.

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**Who acts:** custom, Orpheus, son, nothing · **What happens:** be, begin, harp, sing, make, feel · **To what, where:** dragons, one mouthful

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (custom, Orpheus, son, nothing), 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:pg976:28:3
# text = And Orpheus (whose custom it was to set everything to music) began to harp and sing most gloriously, and made every mother's son of them feel as if nothing in this world were so delectable as to fight dragons, and nothing so truly honorable as to be eaten up at one mouthful, in case of the worst.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	harp	harp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	39	nsubj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	delectable	delectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
43	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	parataxis	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	honorable	honorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	advcl	_	_
54	up	up	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	60	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | custom |  |  |  |  | set *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Orpheus |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **harp** | to-infinitive | Orpheus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | Orpheus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gloriously *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | Orpheus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **feel** | present | every mother's son of comrades |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  | delectable *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **fight** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | dragons |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Co-Agent |
| 9 | **eat up** | to-infinitive · passive | Orpheus *not said here* |  |  | one mouthful |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |

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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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