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title: In order to strengthen his purpose, and fearing lest the whole of th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In order to strengthen his purpose, and fearing lest the whole of the precious poison should be wasted, one of his nephews now whispered to him: Who acts: fearing, nephews, Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 41

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In order to strengthen his purpose, and fearing lest the whole of the precious poison should be wasted, one of his nephews now whispered to him:

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**Who acts:** fearing, nephews, Theseus · **What happens:** strengthen, fear, waste, whisper, purpose · **To what, where:** purpose, Theseus

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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 (fearing, nephews, 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:pg976:4:41
# text = In order to strengthen his purpose, and fearing lest the whole of the precious poison should be wasted, one of his nephews now whispered to him:
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	strengthen	strengthen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	nephews	nephew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strengthen** | to-infinitive |  | Theseus's purpose |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent purpose=Patient |
| 2 | **fear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **waste** | should · passive | fearing |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Theseus's nephews *not said here* |  | Theseus |  | now |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **purpose** |  | Theseus |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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