--- title: But by and by, when they had got fairly out to sea, there came a sti… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But by and by, when they had got fairly out to sea, there came a stiff breeze from the north-west, and drove them along as merrily over the white-capped waves as if they had been going on the most delightful errand imaginable. Who acts: mariners. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Minotaur., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/) / 16 # Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 16 But by and by, when they had got fairly out to sea, there came a stiff breeze from the north-west, and drove them along as merrily over the white-capped waves as if they had been going on the most delightful errand imaginable. **Who acts:** mariners · **What happens:** get, come, drive, cap, go · **To what, where:** stiff breeze, north west, mariners, delightful errand 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:5:16 # text = But by and by, when they had got fairly out to sea, there came a stiff breeze from the north-west, and drove them along as merrily over the white-capped waves as if they had been going on the most delightful errand imaginable. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 2 by by SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 10 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 out out ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 15 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 16 expl _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 stiff stiff ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 along along ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 merrily merrily ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 32 over over ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 capped cap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 aux _ _ 43 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 44 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 46 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 47 advmod _ _ 47 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 errand errand NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 imaginable imaginable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past · perfect | mariners *= mariner* | | | | | out *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **come** | past | | a stiff breeze | | the north west; there | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location breeze=Theme | | 3 | **drive** | past | | mariners *= mariner* | | | | along, merrily *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | | 4 | **cap** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** | past · perfect · progressive | mariners *= mariner* | | | the delightful errand | | imaginable *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on errand=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/17/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/)