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title: But this immitigable Minos cared only to examine whether they were p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But this immitigable Minos cared only to examine whether they were plump enough to satisfy the Minotaur's appetite. Who acts: immitigable Minos, beauty. 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 61

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But this immitigable Minos cared only to examine whether they were plump enough to satisfy the Minotaur's appetite.

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**Who acts:** immitigable Minos, beauty · **What happens:** care, examine, be, satisfy · **To what, where:** appetite

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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 (immitigable Minos, beauty), 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:pg976:5:61
# text = But this immitigable Minos cared only to examine whether they were plump enough to satisfy the Minotaur's appetite.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	immitigable	immitigable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | past | immitigable Minos |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **examine** | to-infinitive | immitigable Minos *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | beauty |  |  |  |  | enough, plump *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **satisfy** | to-infinitive | beauty *not said here* | the Minotaur's appetite |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appetite=Experiencer |

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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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