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title: Bold as he was, however, I rather fancy that it strengthened his val… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Bold as he was, however, I rather fancy that it strengthened his valiant heart, just at this crisis, to feel a tremulous twitch at the silken cord, which he was still holding in his left hand. Who acts: Minotaur, I, last, silken cord. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Mino
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 33

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Bold as he was, however, I rather fancy that it strengthened his valiant heart, just at this crisis, to feel a tremulous twitch at the silken cord, which he was still holding in his left hand.

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**Who acts:** Minotaur, I, last, silken cord · **What happens:** be, fancy, strengthen, feel, hold · **To what, where:** valiant heart, crisis, tremulous twitch, silken cord, left hand

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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 (Minotaur, I, last, silken cord), 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:pg976:6:33
# text = Bold as he was, however, I rather fancy that it strengthened his valiant heart, just at this crisis, to feel a tremulous twitch at the silken cord, which he was still holding in his left hand.
1	Bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fancy	fancy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	strengthened	strengthen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	crisis	crisis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	tremulous	tremulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	twitch	twitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	still	still	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Minotaur |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fancy** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **strengthen** | past | last | Minotaur's valiant heart |  | this crisis |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | last *not said here* | a tremulous twitch |  | the silken cord |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent twitch=Theme at cord=Location |
| 5 | **hold** | past · progressive | the silken cord |  |  | Minotaur's left hand | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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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