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title: Take them away, guards; and let this free-spoken youth be the Minota… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Take them away, guards; and let this free-spoken youth be the Minotaur's first morsel." Who acts: you, spoken youth. 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 72

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Take them away, guards; and let this free-spoken youth be the Minotaur's first morsel."

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**Who acts:** you, spoken youth · **What happens:** take away, let, speak, be · **To what, where:** eyes, spoken youth, first morsel · **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 (you, spoken youth), 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:pg976:5:72
# text = Take them away, guards; and let this free-spoken youth be the Minotaur's first morsel."
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
10	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | imperative | you *not said here* | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  | guards *obl*; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  | this spoken youth |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Theme |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | this spoken youth *not said here* | the Minotaur's first morsel |  |  |  |  | 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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