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description: And therefore, unless he could have laid his full, over-brimming heart into the king's hand, poor Theseus knew not what to do or say. Who acts: Theseus, poor Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 22

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And therefore, unless he could have laid his full, over-brimming heart into the king's hand, poor Theseus knew not what to do or say.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, poor Theseus · **What happens:** lay, over-brimm, not know, do, say · **To what, where:** heart, hand · **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 (Theseus, poor Theseus), 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:pg976:4:22
# text = And therefore, unless he could have laid his full, over-brimming heart into the king's hand, poor Theseus knew not what to do or say.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	over-brimming	over-brimm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | could · perfect | Theseus |  |  |  |  | full, therefore *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **over-brimm** | gerund | Theseus *not said here* | heart |  | the king's hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past | poor Theseus | the king's hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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