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title: One after another, King Minos called these pale, frightened youths a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One after another, King Minos called these pale, frightened youths and sobbing maidens to his footstool, gave them each a poke in the ribs with his sceptre (to try whether they were in good flesh or no), and dismissed them with a nod to his guards. Who acts: One, maidens. A sentence of «Tanglewood T
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 63

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One after another, King Minos called these pale, frightened youths and sobbing maidens to his footstool, gave them each a poke in the ribs with his sceptre (to try whether they were in good flesh or no), and dismissed them with a nod to his guards.

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**Who acts:** One, maidens · **What happens:** call, sob, give, try, be, dismiss · **To what, where:** pale frightened youths, maidens, poke, ribs, good flesh, guards · **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 (One, maidens), 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:pg976:5:63
# text = One after another, King Minos called these pale, frightened youths and sobbing maidens to his footstool, gave them each a poke in the ribs with his sceptre (to try whether they were in good flesh or no), and dismissed them with a nod to his guards.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
9	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sobbing	sob	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
15	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	footstool	footstool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	poke	poke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | One after another | this pale frightened youths |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient |
| 2 | **sob** | gerund | One after another *not said here* | maidens |  |  |  | to King's footstool | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | One after another *not said here* | each poke | maidens *= maiden* | the ribs |  | with King's sceptre | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient poke=Theme |
| 4 | **try** | to-infinitive | One after another *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | maidens *= maiden* |  |  | good flesh |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **dismiss** | past | One after another *not said here* | maidens *= maiden* |  | King's guards |  | with a nod | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to guard=Destination |

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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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