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title: But King Minos, who reigned over Crete, laid out a vast deal of mone… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But King Minos, who reigned over Crete, laid out a vast deal of money in building a habitation for the Minotaur, and took great care of his health and comfort, merely for mischief's sake. Who acts: King, health. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 93

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But King Minos, who reigned over Crete, laid out a vast deal of money in building a habitation for the Minotaur, and took great care of his health and comfort, merely for mischief's sake.

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**Who acts:** King, health · **What happens:** reign, lay out, build, take, deal, care · **To what, where:** vast deal, Crete, habitation, great care, money

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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 (King, health), 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:pg976:4:93
# text = But King Minos, who reigned over Crete, laid out a vast deal of money in building a habitation for the Minotaur, and took great care of his health and comfort, merely for mischief's sake.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | past | King | a vast deal of money |  | Crete |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay out** | participle |  | Crete *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | gerund | King *not said here* | a habitation |  |  |  | for the Minotaur | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent habitation=Product for minotaur=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **take** | past | King *not said here* | great care of king's health and comfort |  |  |  | for mischief's sake | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme for sake=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **care** |  | king's health and comfort |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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