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title: Here is what Ariadne answered, when the brave prince of Athens besou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here is what Ariadne answered, when the brave prince of Athens besought her to accompany him: Who acts: Ariadne, brave prince. 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 68

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Here is what Ariadne answered, when the brave prince of Athens besought her to accompany him:

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**Who acts:** Ariadne, brave prince · **What happens:** be, answer, beseech, accompany · **To what, where:** Ariadne, prince

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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, brave prince), 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:pg976:6:68
# text = Here is what Ariadne answered, when the brave prince of Athens besought her to accompany him:
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	nsubj	_	_
4	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ariadne |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **beseech** | past | the brave prince of Athens | Ariadne |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | the brave prince of Athens *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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