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title: When a son takes a father into his warm heart it renews the old man'… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When a son takes a father into his warm heart it renews the old man's youth in a better way than by the heat of Medea's magic caldron. Who acts: son, aspect, magic caldron. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 17

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When a son takes a father into his warm heart it renews the old man's youth in a better way than by the heat of Medea's magic caldron.

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**Who acts:** son, aspect, magic caldron · **What happens:** take, renew, heat · **To what, where:** father, warm heart, youth, better way

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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 (son, aspect, magic caldron), 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:pg976:4:17
# text = When a son takes a father into his warm heart it renews the old man's youth in a better way than by the heat of Medea's magic caldron.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	renews	renew	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	caldron	caldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | a son | a father |  | son's warm heart |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent father=Theme into heart=Destination |
| 2 | **renew** | present | aspect | the old man's youth |  | a better way than the heat of Medea's magic caldron |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=Patient |
| 3 | **heat** |  | Medea's magic caldron |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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