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title: At first, King Minos will be angry; but he will soon forgive his onl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At first, King Minos will be angry; but he will soon forgive his only child; and, by and by, he will rejoice, I know, that no more youths and maidens must come from Athens to be devoured by the Minotaur. Who acts: King, I, more youths, Minotaur. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorn
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 72

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At first, King Minos will be angry; but he will soon forgive his only child; and, by and by, he will rejoice, I know, that no more youths and maidens must come from Athens to be devoured by the Minotaur.

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**Who acts:** King, I, more youths, Minotaur · **What happens:** be, forgive, rejoice, know, come, devour · **To what, where:** only child, Athens

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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 (King, I, more youths, Minotaur), 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:pg976:6:72
# text = At first, King Minos will be angry; but he will soon forgive his only child; and, by and by, he will rejoice, I know, that no more youths and maidens must come from Athens to be devoured by the Minotaur.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Minos	Minos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
34	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	Minotaur	Minotaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | King |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **forgive** | future | King | King's only child |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 3 | **rejoice** | future | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **come** | must | no more youths and maidens |  |  | Athens |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from athens=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **devour** | to-infinitive · passive | the Minotaur |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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