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title: As the guards were taking him away, she flung herself at the king's… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the guards were taking him away, she flung herself at the king's feet, and besought him to set all the captives free, and especially this one young man. Who acts: guards, Ariadne, this. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 77

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As the guards were taking him away, she flung herself at the king's feet, and besought him to set all the captives free, and especially this one young man.

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**Who acts:** guards, Ariadne, this · **What happens:** take away, fling, beseech, set, man · **To what, where:** Theseus, Ariadne, feet, captives

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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 (guards, Ariadne, this), 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:pg976:5:77
# text = As the guards were taking him away, she flung herself at the king's feet, and besought him to set all the captives free, and especially this one young man.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take away** | past · progressive | the guards | Theseus |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **fling** | past | Ariadne | Ariadne |  | the king's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 3 | **beseech** | past | Ariadne *not said here* | Theseus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | to-infinitive | Ariadne *not said here* | all captives |  |  |  | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient captive=Result |
| 5 | **man** |  | this |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | 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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