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title: Go water thy flowers, and think no more of these Athenian caitiffs,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Go water thy flowers, and think no more of these Athenian caitiffs, whom the Minotaur shall as certainly eat up for breakfast as I will eat a partridge for my supper." Who acts: you, Minotaur, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 81

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Go water thy flowers, and think no more of these Athenian caitiffs, whom the Minotaur shall as certainly eat up for breakfast as I will eat a partridge for my supper."

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**Who acts:** you, Minotaur, I · **What happens:** go, think, eat up, eat · **To what, where:** water, more, Athenian caitiffs, partridge

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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, Minotaur, I), 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:pg976:5:81
# text = Go water thy flowers, and think no more of these Athenian caitiffs, whom the Minotaur shall as certainly eat up for breakfast as I will eat a partridge for my supper."
1	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	Athenian	Athenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	caitiffs	caitiff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	partridge	partridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  | thy flowers *obl* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 3 | **eat up** | shall | the Minotaur | this Athenian caitiffs |  |  |  | for breakfast; certainly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | future | I | a partridge |  |  |  | for my supper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partridge=Patient |

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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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