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title: Without more words on either side, there ensued the most awful fight… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Without more words on either side, there ensued the most awful fight between Theseus and the Minotaur that ever happened beneath the sun or moon. Who acts: Minotaur. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 42

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Without more words on either side, there ensued the most awful fight between Theseus and the Minotaur that ever happened beneath the sun or moon.

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**Who acts:** Minotaur · **What happens:** ensue, happen · **To what, where:** awful fight, sun

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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), 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:pg976:6:42
# text = Without more words on either side, there ensued the most awful fight between Theseus and the Minotaur that ever happened beneath the sun or moon.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	ensued	ensue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Minotaur	minotaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ensue** | past |  | the awful fight |  | there |  | without more words on either side; between Theseus and the Minotaur | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | past | the Minotaur |  |  | the sun or moon | ever |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath sun=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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