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title: And, dearest Theseus, if by some happy chance, you should escape the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, dearest Theseus, if by some happy chance, you should escape the jaws of the Minotaur, then tear down those dismal sails, and hoist others that shall be bright as the sunshine. Who acts: you, hoist others. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 12

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And, dearest Theseus, if by some happy chance, you should escape the jaws of the Minotaur, then tear down those dismal sails, and hoist others that shall be bright as the sunshine.

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**Who acts:** you, hoist others · **What happens:** escape, tear down, be · **To what, where:** jaws, dismal sails

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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 (you, hoist others), 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:pg976:5:12
# text = And, dearest Theseus, if by some happy chance, you should escape the jaws of the Minotaur, then tear down those dismal sails, and hoist others that shall be bright as the sunshine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	hoist	hoist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **escape** | should | you | the jaws of the Minotaur |  |  |  | by some happy chance | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jaw=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tear down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | that dismal sails  hoist others |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location sail=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | shall | hoist others |  |  |  |  | as the sunshine; bright *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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