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title: At sight of the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece, the nine and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At sight of the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece, the nine and forty heroes gave a mighty shout, and Orpheus, striking his harp, sang a song of triumph, to the cadence of which the galley flew over the water, homeward bound, as if careering along with wings! Who acts: forty heroes, galley, Gol
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 6, sentence 5

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At sight of the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece, the nine and forty heroes gave a mighty shout, and Orpheus, striking his harp, sang a song of triumph, to the cadence of which the galley flew over the water, homeward bound, as if careering along with wings!

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**Who acts:** forty heroes, galley, Golden Fleece, triumph · **What happens:** give, strike, sing, fly, career, sight · **To what, where:** mighty shout, harp, song, sight, water, glorious radiance

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forty heroes, galley, Golden Fleece, triumph), 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:pg976:30:5
# text = At sight of the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece, the nine and forty heroes gave a mighty shout, and Orpheus, striking his harp, sang a song of triumph, to the cadence of which the galley flew over the water, homeward bound, as if careering along with wings!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Orpheus	Orpheus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
29	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cadence	cadence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
48	bound	bound	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	careering	career	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
53	along	along	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | forty heroes | a mighty shout |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund |  | Orpheus's harp |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Patient |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | a song of triumph |  | sight of the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece and Orpheus |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the galley |  |  | the water and homeward |  | of the cadence | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Location |
| 5 | **career** | gerund | the galley *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wings; along *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | the glorious radiance of the Golden Fleece and Orpheus |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **radiate** |  | the Golden Fleece and Orpheus |  |  |  |  |  | nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **sing** |  | triumph |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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