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title: At these words, Aegeus drove every thought and feeling out of his br… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At these words, Aegeus drove every thought and feeling out of his breast, except the one idea of how justly the young man deserved to be put to death. Who acts: Aegeus, young man. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 46

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At these words, Aegeus drove every thought and feeling out of his breast, except the one idea of how justly the young man deserved to be put to death.

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**Who acts:** Aegeus, young man · **What happens:** drive, feel out, deserve, put · **To what, where:** thought, words, breast

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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 (Aegeus, young 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:pg976:4:46
# text = At these words, Aegeus drove every thought and feeling out of his breast, except the one idea of how justly the young man deserved to be put to death.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	except	except	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	deserved	deserve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | Aegeus | every thought |  | this words |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thought=Theme at word=Destination |
| 2 | **feel out** | gerund | Aegeus *not said here* | Aegeus's breast |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Theme |
| 3 | **deserve** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | justly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive · passive | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |

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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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