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title: But who ever saw a brazen image that had sense enough to walk round… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But who ever saw a brazen image that had sense enough to walk round an island three times a day, as this giant walks round the island of Crete, challenging every vessel that comes nigh the shore? Who acts: brazen image, vessel. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 38

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But who ever saw a brazen image that had sense enough to walk round an island three times a day, as this giant walks round the island of Crete, challenging every vessel that comes nigh the shore?

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**Who acts:** brazen image, vessel · **What happens:** see, have, walk, challenge, come · **To what, where:** brazen image, sense, island, vessel, shore

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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 (brazen image, vessel), 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:pg976:5:38
# text = But who ever saw a brazen image that had sense enough to walk round an island three times a day, as this giant walks round the island of Crete, challenging every vessel that comes nigh the shore?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
24	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
25	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	round	round	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	challenging	challenge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past |  | a brazen image |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | a brazen image | sense |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient |
| 3 | **walk** | to-infinitive | a brazen image *not said here* |  |  | a island | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round island=Trajectory |
| 4 | **walk** | present |  |  |  | the island of Crete |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round island=Trajectory |
| 5 | **challenge** | gerund |  | every vessel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | present | every vessel | the shore |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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