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title: Only admit this evil-minded young man to your presence, treat him ci… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Only admit this evil-minded young man to your presence, treat him civilly, and invite him to drink a goblet of wine. Who acts: you, man. 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 3

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Only admit this evil-minded young man to your presence, treat him civilly, and invite him to drink a goblet of wine.

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** admit, treat, invite, drink · **To what, where:** minded young man, presence, man, goblet

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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 (you, man), 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:pg976:4:3
# text = Only admit this evil-minded young man to your presence, treat him civilly, and invite him to drink a goblet of wine.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	admit	admit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
4	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	treat	treat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	civilly	civilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	invite	invite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | this minded young man | your presence |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Topic to presence=Recipient |
| 2 | **treat** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | man |  |  | civilly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **invite** | infinitive | you *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a goblet of wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Patient |

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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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