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title: "O my dear son," cried King Aegeus, "why should you expose yourself… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "O my dear son," cried King Aegeus, "why should you expose yourself to this horrible fate? Who acts: dear son, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 100

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"O my dear son," cried King Aegeus, "why should you expose yourself to this horrible fate?

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**Who acts:** dear son, you · **What happens:** cry, expose · **To what, where:** King Aegeus, yourself, horrible fate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dear son, you), 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:pg976:4:100
# text = "O my dear son," cried King Aegeus, "why should you expose yourself to this horrible fate?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	expose	expose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | my dear son | King Aegeus |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aegeus=Topic |
| 2 | **expose** *in a quote* | should | you | yourself | this horrible fate |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme to fate=Recipient |

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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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