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title: "Come on, then, and try it!" was all that Theseus deigned to reply;… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Come on, then, and try it!" was all that Theseus deigned to reply; for he was far too magnanimous to assault his enemy with insolent language. Who acts: you, Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 41

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"Come on, then, and try it!" was all that Theseus deigned to reply; for he was far too magnanimous to assault his enemy with insolent language.

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**Who acts:** you, Theseus · **What happens:** come on, try, deign, reply, be, assault · **To what, where:** roar, enemy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Theseus), 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:pg976:6:41
# text = "Come on, then, and try it!" was all that Theseus deigned to reply; for he was far too magnanimous to assault his enemy with insolent language.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	deigned	deign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
24	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	magnanimous	magnanimous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	assault	assault	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	insolent	insolent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | roar |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **deign** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | far, magnanimous *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **assault** | to-infinitive | Theseus *not said here* | Theseus's enemy |  |  |  | with insolent language | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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