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title: Theseus hated him, and shuddered at him, and yet could not but be se… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Theseus hated him, and shuddered at him, and yet could not but be sensible of some sort of pity; and all the more, the uglier and more detestable the creature was. Who acts: Theseus, creature. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree an
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 25

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Theseus hated him, and shuddered at him, and yet could not but be sensible of some sort of pity; and all the more, the uglier and more detestable the creature was.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, creature · **What happens:** hate, shudder, be, sort · **To what, where:** incapable, pity

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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, creature), 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:pg976:6:25
# text = Theseus hated him, and shuddered at him, and yet could not but be sensible of some sort of pity; and all the more, the uglier and more detestable the creature was.
1	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shuddered	shudder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	uglier	ugly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	detestable	detestable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | Theseus | incapable |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shudder** | past | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Theseus | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | could |  |  |  |  |  | of some sort of pity; sensible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the creature |  |  |  |  | detestable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | pity |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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