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title: It seems that in the island of Crete there lived a certain dreadful… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It seems that in the island of Crete there lived a certain dreadful monster, called a Minotaur, which was shaped partly like a man and partly like a bull, and was altogether such a hideous sort of a creature that it is really disagreeable to think of him. Who acts: It, island. A sentence of «Tanglew
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 91

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It seems that in the island of Crete there lived a certain dreadful monster, called a Minotaur, which was shaped partly like a man and partly like a bull, and was altogether such a hideous sort of a creature that it is really disagreeable to think of him.

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**Who acts:** It, island · **What happens:** seem, live, call, shape, be, think · **To what, where:** certain dreadful monster, Minotaur, hideous sort · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (It, island), 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:pg976:4:91
# text = It seems that in the island of Crete there lived a certain dreadful monster, called a Minotaur, which was shaped partly like a man and partly like a bull, and was altogether such a hideous sort of a creature that it is really disagreeable to think of him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
10	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
35	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	39	det:predet	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	really	really	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	csubj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the island of Crete | a certain dreadful monster |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme monster=Location |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a certain dreadful monster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shape** | past · passive |  | a Minotaur |  |  |  | like a man and a bull; partly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | such hideous sort |  |  |  | of a creature; altogether *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | disagreeable *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of bull | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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