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title: He therefore made little or no objection to Medea's scheme, and as s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He therefore made little or no objection to Medea's scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders that the young stranger should be admitted into his presence. Who acts: king, poisonous wine, Medea. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 10

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He therefore made little or no objection to Medea's scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders that the young stranger should be admitted into his presence.

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**Who acts:** king, poisonous wine, Medea · **What happens:** make, be, give, admit, scheme · **To what, where:** orders, young stranger, presence

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, poisonous wine, Medea), 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:pg976:4:10
# text = He therefore made little or no objection to Medea's scheme, and as soon as the poisonous wine was ready, gave orders that the young stranger should be admitted into his presence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	objection	objection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | past | king |  |  |  |  | little, therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the poisonous wine |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past | king *not said here* | orders |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* | should · passive |  | the young stranger |  | king's presence |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **scheme** |  | Medea |  |  |  |  |  | nom scheme «cognition 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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