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title: Theseus asked of the master of the vessel, who was now at leisure to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Theseus asked of the master of the vessel, who was now at leisure to answer him. Who acts: Theseus, master. 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 33

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Theseus asked of the master of the vessel, who was now at leisure to answer him.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, master · **What happens:** ask, be, answer · **To what, where:** leisure, Theseus

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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 (Theseus, master), 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:pg976:5:33
# text = Theseus asked of the master of the vessel, who was now at leisure to answer him.
1	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | of the master of the vessel and leisure | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of master=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the master of the vessel and leisure |  |  | leisure | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Theseus *not said here* |  | Theseus |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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