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title: It is the day when we annually draw lots to see which of the youths… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the day when we annually draw lots to see which of the youths and maids of Athens shall go to be devoured by the horrible Minotaur!" Who acts: matter, we, Athens, horrible Minotaur. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 86

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It is the day when we annually draw lots to see which of the youths and maids of Athens shall go to be devoured by the horrible Minotaur!"

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**Who acts:** matter, we, Athens, horrible Minotaur · **What happens:** be, draw, see, go, devour · **To what, where:** day, lots, youths, maids

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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 (matter, we, Athens, horrible Minotaur), 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:pg976:4:86
# text = It is the day when we annually draw lots to see which of the youths and maids of Athens shall go to be devoured by the horrible Minotaur!"
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	annually	annually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	draw	draw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Minotaur	minotaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | matter | the day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | present | we | lots |  |  |  | annually *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the youths and maids |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | shall | Athens | maids *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location maid=Theme |
| 5 | **devour** | to-infinitive · passive | the horrible Minotaur |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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