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title: Then going on board, the mariners trimmed the vessel's black sails t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then going on board, the mariners trimmed the vessel's black sails to the wind, which blew faintly off the shore, being pretty much made up of the sighs that everybody kept pouring forth on this melancholy occasion. Who acts: mariners, wind, everybody, sighs. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nath
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 15

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Then going on board, the mariners trimmed the vessel's black sails to the wind, which blew faintly off the shore, being pretty much made up of the sighs that everybody kept pouring forth on this melancholy occasion.

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**Who acts:** mariners, wind, everybody, sighs · **What happens:** go on, trim, blow, make up, keep, pour · **To what, where:** board, black sails, sighs, melancholy occasion

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (mariners, wind, everybody, sighs), 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:pg976:5:15
# text = Then going on board, the mariners trimmed the vessel's black sails to the wind, which blew faintly off the shore, being pretty much made up of the sighs that everybody kept pouring forth on this melancholy occasion.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	trimmed	trim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	faintly	faintly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
26	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
34	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	35	nsubj	_	_
35	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	xcomp	_	_
37	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
40	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | gerund | the mariners *not said here* | board |  |  | then |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **trim** | past | the mariners | the vessel's black sails |  |  |  | to the wind | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient |
| 3 | **blow** | past | the wind |  |  |  |  | off the shore; faintly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off shore=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **make up** | gerund · passive | the mariners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the sighs | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **keep** | past | everybody | the sighs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pour** | gerund | the sighs *not said here* |  |  | this melancholy occasion |  | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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