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title: Nor had he been long in Athens before he caught and chained a terrib… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor had he been long in Athens before he caught and chained a terrible mad bull, and made a public show of him, greatly to the wonder and admiration of good King Aegeus and his subjects. Who acts: Nor. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 77

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Nor had he been long in Athens before he caught and chained a terrible mad bull, and made a public show of him, greatly to the wonder and admiration of good King Aegeus and his subjects.

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**Who acts:** Nor · **What happens:** have, be, catch, chain, make, show · **To what, where:** Athens, terrible mad bull, public show, Nor, good King Aegeus

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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 (Nor), 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:pg976:4:77
# text = Nor had he been long in Athens before he caught and chained a terrible mad bull, and made a public show of him, greatly to the wonder and admiration of good King Aegeus and his subjects.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	chained	chain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | Nor |  |  | Athens |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **chain** | past | Nor *not said here* | a terrible mad bull |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | past | Nor *not said here* | a public show of Nor |  |  |  | to the wonder and admiration of good King Aegeus and Nor's subjects | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset show=Product |
| 6 | **show** |  |  | Nor |  |  |  |  | nom show «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **admire** |  |  | good King Aegeus and Nor's subjects |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=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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