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title: After these memorable deeds, Theseus heard of an enormous sow, which… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 83

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After these memorable deeds, Theseus heard of an enormous sow, which ran wild, and was the terror of all the farmers round about; and, as he did not consider himself above doing any good thing that came in his way, he killed this monstrous creature, and gave the carcass to the poor people for bacon.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, enormous sow, good thing · **What happens:** hear, run, be, not consider, do, come · **To what, where:** terror, Theseus, good thing, way, monstrous creature, carcass

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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, enormous sow, good thing), 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:pg976:3:83
# text = After these memorable deeds, Theseus heard of an enormous sow, which ran wild, and was the terror of all the farmers round about; and, as he did not consider himself above doing any good thing that came in his way, he killed this monstrous creature, and gave the carcass to the poor people for bacon.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	memorable	memorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	round	round	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
35	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	above	above	ADP	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
38	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
49	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
50	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	carcass	carcass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	bacon	bacon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Theseus |  |  |  | after this memorable deeds | of a enormous sow | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of sow=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | past | a enormous sow |  |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Theseus *not said here* | the terror |  |  |  | of all farmers | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **consider** | past · do-support | Theseus | Theseus |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | Theseus *not said here* | any good thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **come** | past | any good thing |  |  | Theseus's way |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 7 | **kill** | past | Theseus | this monstrous creature |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme |
| 8 | **give** | past | Theseus *not said here* | the carcass | the poor people |  |  | for bacon | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent carcass=Theme to people=Recipient for bacon=Asset |

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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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