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title: Stay! take the end of this silken string; I will hold the other end;… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Stay! take the end of this silken string; I will hold the other end; and then, if you win the victory, it will lead you again to this spot. Who acts: you, I, victory. 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 7

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Stay! take the end of this silken string; I will hold the other end; and then, if you win the victory, it will lead you again to this spot.

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**Who acts:** you, I, victory · **What happens:** stay, take, hold, win, lead · **To what, where:** end, other end, victory, you, spot

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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 (you, I, victory), 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:pg976:6:7
# text = Stay! take the end of this silken string; I will hold the other end; and then, if you win the victory, it will lead you again to this spot.
1	Stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the end of this silken string |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | future | I | the other end |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme |
| 4 | **win** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | the victory |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality |
| 5 | **lead** | future | victory | you |  | this spot | then; again |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to spot=Destination |

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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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