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title: "Theseus," said the maiden, "you can now get on board your vessel, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Theseus," said the maiden, "you can now get on board your vessel, and sail away for Athens." Who acts: Theseus, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 95

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"Theseus," said the maiden, "you can now get on board your vessel, and sail away for Athens."

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**Who acts:** Theseus, you · **What happens:** say, get, sail away · **To what, where:** maiden, vessel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Theseus, you), 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:pg976:5:95
# text = "Theseus," said the maiden, "you can now get on board your vessel, and sail away for Athens."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Theseus	theseus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	board	board	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sail	sail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Theseus | the maiden |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | can | you |  |  | your vessel | now |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on vessel=Source |
| 3 | **sail away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for Athens; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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