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title: The Minotaur., part 1 — Tanglewood Tales · full text with trees · page 2
description: The Minotaur., part 1, «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: In the old city of Troezene, at the foot of a lofty mountain, there lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus.
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# The Minotaur., part 1 · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/101/) — "And he is now waiting for admission to your majesty's presence," added they.
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/102/) — "Aha!" cried the old king, on hearing this. "
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/103/) — Why, he must be a very wicked young fellow indeed!
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/104/) — Pray, what would you advise me to do with him?"
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/105/) — In reply to this question, the wicked Medea put in her word.
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/106/) — As I have already told you, she was a famous enchantress.
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/107/) — According to some stories, she was in the habit of boiling old people in a large caldron, under pretense of making them young again; but King Aegeus, I suppose, did not fancy such an uncomfortable way of growing young, or perhaps was contented to be old, and therefore would never let himself be popped into the caldron.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/108/) — If there were time to spare from more important matters, I should be glad to tell you of Medea's fiery chariot, drawn by winged dragons, in which the enchantress used often to take an airing among the clouds.
- [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/109/) — This chariot, in fact, was the vehicle that first brought her to Athens, where she had done nothing but mischief ever since her arrival.
- [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/110/) — But these and many other wonders must be left untold; and it is enough to say, that Medea, amongst a thousand other bad things, knew how to prepare a poison, that was instantly fatal to whomsoever might so much as touch it with his lips.

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