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title: Eager to let Ariadne know of his success, he followed the guidance o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Eager to let Ariadne know of his success, he followed the guidance of the thread, and soon found himself at the entrance of the labyrinth. Who acts: Ariadne, 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 53

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Eager to let Ariadne know of his success, he followed the guidance of the thread, and soon found himself at the entrance of the labyrinth.

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**Who acts:** Ariadne, Theseus · **What happens:** let, know, follow, find, guide · **To what, where:** Ariadne, guidance, Theseus, entrance, thread

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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 (Ariadne, 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:pg976:6:53
# text = Eager to let Ariadne know of his success, he followed the guidance of the thread, and soon found himself at the entrance of the labyrinth.
1	Eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	guidance	guidance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | Ariadne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | infinitive | Ariadne *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Theseus's success | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of success=Stimulus |
| 3 | **follow** | past | Theseus | the guidance of the thread |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guidance=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past |  | Theseus |  | the entrance of the labyrinth |  | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at entrance=Asset |
| 5 | **guide** |  |  | the thread |  |  |  |  | nom guidance «communication transitive»: of=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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