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title: No peace could they obtain, however, except on condition that they s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No peace could they obtain, however, except on condition that they should send seven young men and seven maidens, every year, to be devoured by the pet monster of the cruel King Minos. Who acts: peace, Athenians, pet monster. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., pa
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 95

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No peace could they obtain, however, except on condition that they should send seven young men and seven maidens, every year, to be devoured by the pet monster of the cruel King Minos.

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**Who acts:** peace, Athenians, pet monster · **What happens:** obtain, send, devour · **To what, where:** seven young men

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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 (peace, Athenians, pet monster), 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:pg976:4:95
# text = No peace could they obtain, however, except on condition that they should send seven young men and seven maidens, every year, to be devoured by the pet monster of the cruel King Minos.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
16	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Minos	mino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | could | no peace |  |  |  |  | except condition; however *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **send** | should | Athenians *= athenian* | seven young men and seven maidens |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **devour** | to-infinitive · passive | the pet monster of the cruel King Minos |  |  |  |  |  | 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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