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title: On this mishap, he bellowed so intolerably that a part of the labyri… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On this mishap, he bellowed so intolerably that a part of the labyrinth tumbled down, and all the inhabitants of Crete mistook the noise for an uncommonly heavy thunder storm. Who acts: Theseus, inhabitants. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dep
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 44

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On this mishap, he bellowed so intolerably that a part of the labyrinth tumbled down, and all the inhabitants of Crete mistook the noise for an uncommonly heavy thunder storm.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, inhabitants · **What happens:** bellow, tumble down, mistake · **To what, where:** mishap, part, noise

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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, inhabitants), 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:pg976:6:44
# text = On this mishap, he bellowed so intolerably that a part of the labyrinth tumbled down, and all the inhabitants of Crete mistook the noise for an uncommonly heavy thunder storm.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	mishap	mishap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bellowed	bellow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	intolerably	intolerably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Crete	Crete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	mistook	mistake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bellow** | past | Theseus |  |  | this mishap |  | intolerably *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mishap=Location |
| 2 | **tumble down** | participle · passive |  | a part of the labyrinth |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **mistake** | past | all inhabitants of Crete | the noise |  |  |  | for a heavy thunder storm | tree rules |

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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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