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title: But certain it is, that, before they reached any place of rest, thei… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But certain it is, that, before they reached any place of rest, their splendid garments were quite worn out. Who acts: manner, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 102

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But certain it is, that, before they reached any place of rest, their splendid garments were quite worn out.

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**Who acts:** manner, Cadmus · **What happens:** be, reach, wear out · **To what, where:** place, splendid garments

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manner, Cadmus), 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:pg976:10:102
# text = But certain it is, that, before they reached any place of rest, their splendid garments were quite worn out.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | manner |  |  |  |  | that *obl*; certain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Cadmus | any place of rest |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **wear out** | past · passive |  | Cadmus's splendid garments |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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