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title: She was a beautiful and tender-hearted maiden, and looked at these p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was a beautiful and tender-hearted maiden, and looked at these poor doomed captives with very different feelings from those of the iron-breasted King Minos. Who acts: Ariadne. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 74

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She was a beautiful and tender-hearted maiden, and looked at these poor doomed captives with very different feelings from those of the iron-breasted King Minos.

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**Who acts:** Ariadne · **What happens:** be, look, doom, breast · **To what, where:** beautiful hearted maiden

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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 (Ariadne), 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:pg976:5:74
# text = She was a beautiful and tender-hearted maiden, and looked at these poor doomed captives with very different feelings from those of the iron-breasted King Minos.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
15	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
26	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	breasted	breast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ariadne | a beautiful hearted maiden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | at poor doomed captives with different feelings from those | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at captive=Theme |
| 3 | **doom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **breast** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «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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