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title: She really wept indeed, at the idea of how much human happiness woul… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 75

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She really wept indeed, at the idea of how much human happiness would be needlessly thrown away, by giving so many young people, in the first bloom and rose blossom of their lives, to be eaten up by a creature who, no doubt, would have preferred a fat ox, or even a large pig, to the plumpest of them.

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**Who acts:** Ariadne, creature · **What happens:** weep, throw away, give, rise, eat up, prefer · **To what, where:** idea, many young people, first bloom, blossom, creature

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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, creature), 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:pg976:5:75
# text = She really wept indeed, at the idea of how much human happiness would be needlessly thrown away, by giving so many young people, in the first bloom and rose blossom of their lives, to be eaten up by a creature who, no doubt, would have preferred a fat ox, or even a large pig, to the plumpest of them.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	needlessly	needlessly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	amod	_	_
30	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	48	det	_	_
48	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	aux	_	_
52	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
58	even	even	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	plumpest	plump	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | Ariadne |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **throw away** | would · passive |  | the idea of much human happiness |  |  |  | away, needlessly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund |  | many young people |  | the first bloom |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | past |  | blossom of people's lives |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme |
| 5 | **eat up** | to-infinitive · passive | a creature |  |  |  |  | to the plumpest | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **prefer** | would · perfect · passive |  | a creature |  |  |  |  | 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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