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title: No sooner had they entered the harbor than a party of the guards of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner had they entered the harbor than a party of the guards of King Minos came down to the water side, and took charge of the fourteen young men and damsels. Who acts: strides. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 55

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No sooner had they entered the harbor than a party of the guards of King Minos came down to the water side, and took charge of the fourteen young men and damsels.

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**Who acts:** strides · **What happens:** enter, come down, take, charge · **To what, where:** harbor, water side, charge, fourteen young men

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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 (strides), 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:pg976:5:55
# text = No sooner had they entered the harbor than a party of the guards of King Minos came down to the water side, and took charge of the fourteen young men and damsels.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	harbor	harbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	fourteen	fourteen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | strides *= stride* | the harbor |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbor=Destination |
| 2 | **come down** | past | strides *= stride* *not said here* |  |  | the water side |  | than a party of the guards of King Minos; down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **take** | past | strides *= stride* *not said here* | charge of the fourteen young men and damsels |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 4 | **charge** |  |  | the fourteen young men and damsels |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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