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title: Theseus even fancied a rude articulation in it, as if the creature t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Theseus even fancied a rude articulation in it, as if the creature that uttered it were trying to shape his hoarse breath into words. Who acts: Theseus, creature. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 3

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Theseus even fancied a rude articulation in it, as if the creature that uttered it were trying to shape his hoarse breath into words.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, creature · **What happens:** fancy, utter, try, shape · **To what, where:** rude articulation, articulation, creature, hoarse breath, words

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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:pg976:6:3
# text = Theseus even fancied a rude articulation in it, as if the creature that uttered it were trying to shape his hoarse breath into words.
1	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	articulation	articulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	shape	shape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past | Theseus | a rude articulation |  | articulation |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer articulation=Stimulus |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the creature | creature |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **try** | past · progressive | the creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the creature *not said here* | Theseus's hoarse breath |  | words |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent breath=Material into word=Product |

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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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