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title: Now, some low-minded people, who pretend to tell the story of Theseu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, some low-minded people, who pretend to tell the story of Theseus and Ariadne, have the face to say that this royal and honorable maiden did really flee away, under cover of the night, with the young stranger whose life she had preserved. Who acts: minded people, royal maiden, Ariadne. A sentenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 65

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Now, some low-minded people, who pretend to tell the story of Theseus and Ariadne, have the face to say that this royal and honorable maiden did really flee away, under cover of the night, with the young stranger whose life she had preserved.

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**Who acts:** minded people, royal maiden, Ariadne · **What happens:** pretend, tell, have, say, flee away, preserve · **To what, where:** story, face, life · **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 (minded people, royal maiden, Ariadne), 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:pg976:6:65
# text = Now, some low-minded people, who pretend to tell the story of Theseus and Ariadne, have the face to say that this royal and honorable maiden did really flee away, under cover of the night, with the young stranger whose life she had preserved.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pretend	pretend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
27	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	honorable	honorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	really	really	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	under	under	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
46	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | present | some minded people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | some minded people *not said here* | the story of Theseus and Ariadne |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | present | some minded people | the face |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | some minded people *not said here* | the face *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **flee away** | past · do-support | this royal maiden |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **preserve** | past · perfect | Ariadne | the young stranger  the young stranger  life's life's life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary |

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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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