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title: In the joy of their success, however, and amidst the sports, dancing… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the joy of their success, however, and amidst the sports, dancing, and other merriment, with which these young folks wore away the time, they never once thought whether their sails were black, white, or rainbow colored, and, indeed, left it entirely to the mariners whether they had any sails at a
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 88

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In the joy of their success, however, and amidst the sports, dancing, and other merriment, with which these young folks wore away the time, they never once thought whether their sails were black, white, or rainbow colored, and, indeed, left it entirely to the mariners whether they had any sails at all.

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**Who acts:** young folks, sails, folks · **What happens:** wear away, not think, be, color, leave, have · **To what, where:** folks, sail, mariners, sails, all, success · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young folks, sails, folks), 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:pg976:6:88
# text = In the joy of their success, however, and amidst the sports, dancing, and other merriment, with which these young folks wore away the time, they never once thought whether their sails were black, white, or rainbow colored, and, indeed, left it entirely to the mariners whether they had any sails at all.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
23	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
49	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
57	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
60	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
61	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	_
62	at	at	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear away** | past | this young folks |  |  |  | time | with sports dancing and other merriment; away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | folks *= folk* |  |  |  | once *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | folks's sails |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | folks's sails *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **leave** | past |  | sail | the mariners |  |  | entirely, indeed *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mariner=Recipient |
| 7 | **have** | past | folks *= folk* | any sails |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient |
| 8 | **joy** |  |  | youths's success |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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