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title: But thou, King Minos, art thou not thyself appalled, who, year after… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But thou, King Minos, art thou not thyself appalled, who, year after year, hast perpetrated this dreadful wrong, by giving seven innocent youths and as many maidens to be devoured by a monster? Who acts: thyself, monster. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 67

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But thou, King Minos, art thou not thyself appalled, who, year after year, hast perpetrated this dreadful wrong, by giving seven innocent youths and as many maidens to be devoured by a monster?

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**Who acts:** thyself, monster · **What happens:** not appal, have, perpetrate, give, devour · **To what, where:** perpetrated dreadful wrong, seven innocent youths

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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 (thyself, monster), 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:pg976:5:67
# text = But thou, King Minos, art thou not thyself appalled, who, year after year, hast perpetrated this dreadful wrong, by giving seven innocent youths and as many maidens to be devoured by a monster?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	thyself	thyself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
11	appalled	appal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
19	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	perpetrated	perpetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
27	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **appal** | past | thyself |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | this perpetrated dreadful wrong |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Patient |
| 3 | **perpetrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | gerund |  | seven innocent youths and many maidens |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
| 5 | **devour** | to-infinitive · passive | a monster |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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