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title: And King Aegeus, like most other kings, thought any punishment mild… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And King Aegeus, like most other kings, thought any punishment mild enough for a person who was accused of plotting against his life. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 9

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And King Aegeus, like most other kings, thought any punishment mild enough for a person who was accused of plotting against his life.

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**What happens:** think, accuse, plot · **To what, where:** King, person

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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: 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:pg976:4:9
# text = And King Aegeus, like most other kings, thought any punishment mild enough for a person who was accused of plotting against his life.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	accused	accuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	plotting	plot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | participle · passive |  | King and most other kings |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme punishment=Attribute |
| 2 | **accuse** | past · passive |  | a person |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **plot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | against king's life | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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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