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title: After this (being now under the guidance of the two princes, who wer… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this (being now under the guidance of the two princes, who were well acquainted with the way), they quickly sailed to Colchis. Who acts: this, princes. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 4

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After this (being now under the guidance of the two princes, who were well acquainted with the way), they quickly sailed to Colchis.

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**Who acts:** this, princes · **What happens:** be, acquaint, sail · **To what, where:** two princes, Colchis

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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 (this, princes), 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:pg976:28:4
# text = After this (being now under the guidance of the two princes, who were well acquainted with the way), they quickly sailed to Colchis.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | this |  |  |  | after the guidance; now | of the two princes | tree rules |
| 2 | **acquaint** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the two princes |  |  |  | with the way; well *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **sail** | past | princes *= prince* |  |  | Colchis |  | quickly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to colchis=Trajectory |

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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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