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title: And when she beheld the brave, spirited figure of Prince Theseus bea… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when she beheld the brave, spirited figure of Prince Theseus bearing himself so calmly in his terrible peril, she grew a hundred times more pitiful than before. Who acts: Ariadne, brave spirited figure, Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 76

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And when she beheld the brave, spirited figure of Prince Theseus bearing himself so calmly in his terrible peril, she grew a hundred times more pitiful than before.

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**Who acts:** Ariadne, brave spirited figure, Theseus · **What happens:** behold, bear, grow, figure, peril · **To what, where:** brave spirited figure, terrible peril, Theseus, Prince Theseus

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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, brave spirited figure, Theseus), 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:pg976:5:76
# text = And when she beheld the brave, spirited figure of Prince Theseus bearing himself so calmly in his terrible peril, she grew a hundred times more pitiful than before.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	spirited	spirited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | Ariadne | the brave spirited figure of Prince Theseus |  | Theseus's terrible peril |  | calmly *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | the brave spirited figure of Prince Theseus *not said here* | Theseus |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Ariadne |  |  |  |  | pitiful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **figure** |  |  | Prince Theseus |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **peril** |  | Theseus |  |  |  |  |  | nom peril «state transitive»: poss=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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