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description: Do but let me put a single drop into the goblet, and let the young man taste it; and I will answer for it, he shall quite lay aside the bad designs with which he comes hither." Who acts: you, me, young man, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 7

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Do but let me put a single drop into the goblet, and let the young man taste it; and I will answer for it, he shall quite lay aside the bad designs with which he comes hither."

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**Who acts:** you, me, young man, I, man · **What happens:** let, put, taste, answer, lay, come · **To what, where:** me, single drop, goblet, young man, drop

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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, me, young man, I), 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:pg976:4:7
# text = Do but let me put a single drop into the goblet, and let the young man taste it; and I will answer for it, he shall quite lay aside the bad designs with which he comes hither."
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	aside	aside	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	designs	design	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | me *not said here* | a single drop |  | the goblet |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent drop=Goal |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **taste** | infinitive | the young man *not said here* | drop |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | I |  |  |  |  | for drop | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lay** | shall | man |  |  |  |  | aside the bad designs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come** | present | man |  |  |  |  | with the bad designs; hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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