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title: But still he followed the dreadful roar of the Minotaur, which now g… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But still he followed the dreadful roar of the Minotaur, which now grew louder and louder, and finally so very loud that Theseus fully expected to come close upon him, at every new zizgag and wriggle of the path. Who acts: Theseus, Minotaur, path. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawtho
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 20

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But still he followed the dreadful roar of the Minotaur, which now grew louder and louder, and finally so very loud that Theseus fully expected to come close upon him, at every new zizgag and wriggle of the path.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, Minotaur, path · **What happens:** follow, grow, expect, come, roar, wriggle · **To what, where:** dreadful roar, new zizgag

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus, Minotaur, path), 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:pg976:6:20
# text = But still he followed the dreadful roar of the Minotaur, which now grew louder and louder, and finally so very loud that Theseus fully expected to come close upon him, at every new zizgag and wriggle of the path.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
36	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	zizgag	zizgag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	wriggle	wriggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Theseus | the dreadful roar of the Minotaur |  |  | still |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the Minotaur |  |  |  | now | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **expect** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Theseus *not said here* |  |  | every new zizgag and wriggle of the path |  | upon Theseus; close *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 5 | **roar** |  | the Minotaur |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **wriggle** |  | the path |  |  |  |  |  | nom wriggle «act intransitive»: of=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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