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title: Thou art too gentle and sweet a child for such an iron-hearted fathe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou art too gentle and sweet a child for such an iron-hearted father as King Minos. Who acts: Thou. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 61

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Thou art too gentle and sweet a child for such an iron-hearted father as King Minos.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** be, heart

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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 (Thou), 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:pg976:6:61
# text = Thou art too gentle and sweet a child for such an iron-hearted father as King Minos.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	hearted	heart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thou |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **heart** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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