--- title: I cannot tell you how long Queen Telephassa, and Cadmus, Phoenix, an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I cannot tell you how long Queen Telephassa, and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, her three sons, and Thasus, their playfellow, went wandering along the highways and bypaths, or through the pathless wildernesses of the earth, in this manner. Who acts: I, Cadmus. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Cadmus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:10:101 # text = I cannot tell you how long Queen Telephassa, and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, her three sons, and Thasus, their playfellow, went wandering along the highways and bypaths, or through the pathless wildernesses of the earth, in this manner. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 8 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:desc _ _ 9 Telephassa Telephassa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 12 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Phoenix Phoenix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 Cilix Cilix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 Thasus Thasus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 playfellow playfellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 30 wandering wonder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 xcomp _ _ 31 along along ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 highways highway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 bypaths bypath NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 through through ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 pathless pathless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 wildernesses wilderness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 48 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I | | you | | | long *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **go** | past | Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix and Telephassa's three sons | | | the pathless wildernesses of the earth | | in this manner | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix and Telephassa's three sons *not said here* | | | | | along the highways and bypaths | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/102/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)