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title: As the breeze came fresher just then, the master was busy with trimm… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the breeze came fresher just then, the master was busy with trimming his sails, and had no more time to answer questions. Who acts: master. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 25

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As the breeze came fresher just then, the master was busy with trimming his sails, and had no more time to answer questions.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** come, be, trim, have, answer · **To what, where:** sails, questions

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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 (master), 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:pg976:5:25
# text = As the breeze came fresher just then, the master was busy with trimming his sails, and had no more time to answer questions.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fresher	fresh	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
13	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	trimming	trim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | then | as the breeze; fresh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the master |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trim** | gerund | the master *not said here* | master's sails |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | questions |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality |

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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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