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title: That Daedalus was a very cunning workman; but of all his artful cont… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That Daedalus was a very cunning workman; but of all his artful contrivances, this labyrinth is the most wondrous. Who acts: Daedalus, labyrinth. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 106

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That Daedalus was a very cunning workman; but of all his artful contrivances, this labyrinth is the most wondrous.

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**Who acts:** Daedalus, labyrinth · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cunning workman

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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 (Daedalus, labyrinth), 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:pg976:5:106
# text = That Daedalus was a very cunning workman; but of all his artful contrivances, this labyrinth is the most wondrous.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Daedalus	Daedalus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	artful	artful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	contrivances	contrivance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that Daedalus | a cunning workman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | this labyrinth |  |  |  |  | wondrous *property* | tree rules |

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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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