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title: It was as if Ariadne were giving him all her might and courage; and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was as if Ariadne were giving him all her might and courage; and much as he already had, and little as she had to give, it made his own seem twice as much. Who acts: last, Ariadne, Minotaur. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree a
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 34

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It was as if Ariadne were giving him all her might and courage; and much as he already had, and little as she had to give, it made his own seem twice as much.

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**Who acts:** last, Ariadne, Minotaur · **What happens:** be, give, courage, have, make, seem · **To what, where:** much, Minotaur, little

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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 (last, Ariadne, Minotaur), 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:pg976:6:34
# text = It was as if Ariadne were giving him all her might and courage; and much as he already had, and little as she had to give, it made his own seem twice as much.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	already	already	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
35	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	37	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	much	much	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | last |  |  |  |  | as Ariadne | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past · progressive | Ariadne | much | Minotaur |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient much=Theme |
| 3 | **courage** | might | Ariadne |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Minotaur | little |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | past | Ariadne |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | to-infinitive | Ariadne *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **make** | past | last |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **seem** | present | last *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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