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title: And O, my good little people, you will perhaps see, one of these day… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And O, my good little people, you will perhaps see, one of these days, as I do now, that every human being who suffers any thing evil to get into his nature, or to remain there, is a kind of Minotaur, an enemy of his fellow-creatures, and separated from all good companionship, as this poor monster w
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 28

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And O, my good little people, you will perhaps see, one of these days, as I do now, that every human being who suffers any thing evil to get into his nature, or to remain there, is a kind of Minotaur, an enemy of his fellow-creatures, and separated from all good companionship, as this poor monster was.

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**Who acts:** good little people, I, poor monster · **What happens:** see, do, suffer, get, remain, be · **To what, where:** one, thing evil, nature, kind, fellow creatures

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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 (good little people, I, poor monster), 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:pg976:6:28
# text = And O, my good little people, you will perhaps see, one of these days, as I do now, that every human being who suffers any thing evil to get into his nature, or to remain there, is a kind of Minotaur, an enemy of his fellow-creatures, and separated from all good companionship, as this poor monster was.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	suffers	suffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
31	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
42	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
54	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	acl	_	_
60	from	from	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
61	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	63	det	_	_
62	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	companionship	companionship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
65	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
66	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	68	det	_	_
67	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nsubj	_	_
69	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | future | my good little people | one of this days |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | present | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suffer** | present |  | any thing evil |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | any thing evil *not said here* |  | Theseus's nature |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nature=Destination |
| 5 | **remain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | a kind |  |  |  | of Minotaur; a enemy of Theseus's fellow creatures *nmod* | tree rules |
| 7 | **separate** | participle |  | Theseus's fellow creatures *not said here* |  |  |  | from all good companionship | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from companionship=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **be** | past | this poor monster |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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