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title: "That is the Minotaur's noise," whispered Ariadne, closely grasping… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "That is the Minotaur's noise," whispered Ariadne, closely grasping the hand of Theseus, and pressing one of her own hands to her heart, which was all in a tremble. " Who acts: That, noise, heart. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tre
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 5

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"That is the Minotaur's noise," whispered Ariadne, closely grasping the hand of Theseus, and pressing one of her own hands to her heart, which was all in a tremble. "

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**Who acts:** That, noise, heart · **What happens:** be, whisper, grasp, press · **To what, where:** noise, Ariadne, hand, one, tremble · **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 (That, noise, heart), 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:pg976:6:5
# text = "That is the Minotaur's noise," whispered Ariadne, closely grasping the hand of Theseus, and pressing one of her own hands to her heart, which was all in a tremble. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	grasping	grasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tremble	tremble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | That | the Minotaur's noise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | the Minotaur's noise | Ariadne |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ariadne=Topic |
| 3 | **grasp** | gerund | the Minotaur's noise *not said here* | the hand of Theseus |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |
| 4 | **press** | gerund | the Minotaur's noise *not said here* | one of noise's own hands |  |  |  | to noise's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | noise's heart |  |  | a tremble |  | all *property* | 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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