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title: At last, the Minotaur made a run at Theseus, grazed his left side wi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, the Minotaur made a run at Theseus, grazed his left side with his horn, and flung him down; and thinking that he had stabbed him to the heart, he cut a great caper in the air, opened his bull mouth from ear to ear, and prepared to snap his head off. Who acts: last Minotaur, Theseus. A sente
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 47

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At last, the Minotaur made a run at Theseus, grazed his left side with his horn, and flung him down; and thinking that he had stabbed him to the heart, he cut a great caper in the air, opened his bull mouth from ear to ear, and prepared to snap his head off.

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**Who acts:** last Minotaur, Theseus · **What happens:** make, graze, fling down, think, stab, cut · **To what, where:** run, Theseus, left side, great caper, air, bull mouth · **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 (last Minotaur, 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:pg976:6:47
# text = At last, the Minotaur made a run at Theseus, grazed his left side with his horn, and flung him down; and thinking that he had stabbed him to the heart, he cut a great caper in the air, opened his bull mouth from ear to ear, and prepared to snap his head off.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
26	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	stabbed	stab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	caper	caper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	off	off	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the last Minotaur | a run |  | Theseus |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent run=Product |
| 2 | **graze** | past |  | Theseus's left side |  |  |  | with Theseus's horn | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer with horn=Instrument |
| 3 | **fling down** | past | the last Minotaur *not said here* | Theseus |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **stab** | past · perfect · passive |  | Theseus |  |  |  | to the heart | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient he=Result |
| 6 | **cut** | past | Theseus | a great caper |  | the air |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caper=Product |
| 7 | **open** | past |  | Theseus's bull mouth | ear |  |  | to ear | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient to ear=Recipient |
| 8 | **prepare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 9 | **snap off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Theseus's head |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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