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title: Nothing remained for him, therefore, but to bid Ariadne an affection… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nothing remained for him, therefore, but to bid Ariadne an affectionate farewell, and to go on board the vessel, and set sail. Who acts: Nothing. 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 77

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Nothing remained for him, therefore, but to bid Ariadne an affectionate farewell, and to go on board the vessel, and set sail.

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**Who acts:** Nothing · **What happens:** remain, bid, go, set · **To what, where:** affectionate farewell, Ariadne, vessel, sail

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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 (Nothing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:418`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:6:77
# text = Nothing remained for him, therefore, but to bid Ariadne an affectionate farewell, and to go on board the vessel, and set sail.
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	board	board	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
26	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Nothing |  |  |  |  | for Theseus; therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bid** | to-infinitive | Nothing *not said here* | a affectionate farewell | Ariadne |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Nothing *not said here* |  |  | the vessel |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on vessel=Location |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | Nothing *not said here* | sail |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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