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title: One of these bad people was named Procrustes; and he was indeed a te… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One of these bad people was named Procrustes; and he was indeed a terrible fellow, and had an ugly way of making fun of the poor travelers who happened to fall into his clutches. Who acts: Theseus, terrible fellow, ugly way, poor travelers. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Th
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 77

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One of these bad people was named Procrustes; and he was indeed a terrible fellow, and had an ugly way of making fun of the poor travelers who happened to fall into his clutches.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, terrible fellow, ugly way, poor travelers · **What happens:** name, be, have, make, happen, fall · **To what, where:** One, terrible fellow, ugly way, fun, clutches

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus, terrible fellow, ugly way, poor travelers), 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:pg976:3:77
# text = One of these bad people was named Procrustes; and he was indeed a terrible fellow, and had an ugly way of making fun of the poor travelers who happened to fall into his clutches.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	Procrustes	Procruste	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	travelers	traveler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	clutches	clutch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | One of this bad people |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Theseus | a terrible fellow |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | a terrible fellow *not said here* | a ugly way |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | a ugly way *not said here* | fun of the poor travelers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 5 | **happen** | past | the poor travelers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the poor travelers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into Theseus's clutches *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into clutch=Result |
| 7 | **clutch** |  | Theseus |  |  |  |  |  | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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