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title: "No," answered the young man; "I will never leave Crete unless I can… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "No," answered the young man; "I will never leave Crete unless I can first slay the Minotaur, and save my poor companions, and deliver Athens from this cruel tribute." Who acts: young man. 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 96

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"No," answered the young man; "I will never leave Crete unless I can first slay the Minotaur, and save my poor companions, and deliver Athens from this cruel tribute."

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**Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** answer, not leave, slay, save, deliver · **To what, where:** Crete, Minotaur, poor companions, Athens, cruel tribute · **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 (young man), 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:pg976:5:96
# text = "No," answered the young man; "I will never leave Crete unless I can first slay the Minotaur, and save my poor companions, and deliver Athens from this cruel tribute."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
20	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	deliver	deliver	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **leave** *in a quote* | future | the young man *= man* | Crete |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crete=Theme |
| 3 | **slay** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | the young man *= man* | the Minotaur |  |  |  | first *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minotaur=Patient |
| 4 | **save** *in a quote* | infinitive | the young man *= man* *not said here* | my poor companions |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Theme |
| 5 | **deliver** *in a quote* | present | the young man *not said here* | Athens |  | this cruel tribute |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent athens=Theme from tribute=Initial\_Location |

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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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