---
title: Quick!--let him taste the wine; or perhaps he may do the deed even y… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Quick!--let him taste the wine; or perhaps he may do the deed even yet." Who acts: you, stranger. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/45/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Minotaur., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/) / 45

# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 45

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Quick!--let him taste the wine; or perhaps he may do the deed even yet."

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, stranger · **What happens:** let, taste, do · **To what, where:** stranger, wine, deed

<!-- .vabout -->
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, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg976:4:45
# text = Quick!--let him taste the wine; or perhaps he may do the deed even yet."
1	Quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | infinitive | stranger *not said here* | the wine |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme wine=Attribute |
| 3 | **do** | may | stranger | the deed |  |  | yet | perhaps *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/44/)
- next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/46/)
- ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/4/)