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title: Nevertheless, Ariadne did but press one of her soft little fingers a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 104

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Nevertheless, Ariadne did but press one of her soft little fingers against a particular block of marble and, though it looked as solid as any other part of the wall, it yielded to her touch, disclosing an entrance just wide enough to admit them They crept through, and the marble stone swung back into its place.

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**Who acts:** Ariadne, wall, fingers, marble stone · **What happens:** press, look, yield, disclose, admit, creep · **To what, where:** one, entrance, fingers, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ariadne, wall, fingers, marble stone), 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:pg976:5:104
# text = Nevertheless, Ariadne did but press one of her soft little fingers against a particular block of marble and, though it looked as solid as any other part of the wall, it yielded to her touch, disclosing an entrance just wide enough to admit them They crept through, and the marble stone swung back into its place.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	press	press	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	disclosing	disclose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	just	just	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
45	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	admit	admit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	ccomp	_	_
51	through	through	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
58	back	back	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	into	into	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past · do-support | Ariadne | one of Ariadne's soft little fingers |  |  |  | against a particular block of marble; nevertheless *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | wall |  |  |  |  | solid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **yield** | past | wall |  |  |  |  | to Ariadne's touch | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to touch=Theme |
| 4 | **disclose** | gerund | wall *not said here* | a entrance |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot entrance=Topic |
| 5 | **admit** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | wall *not said here* | fingers *= finger* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **creep** | past | fingers *= finger* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **swing back** | past | the marble stone |  |  | wall's place |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into place=Trajectory |
| 8 | **touch** |  | Ariadne |  |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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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