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title: "Brother Cadmus!" cried Europa, starting up out of the midst of the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Brother Cadmus!" cried Europa, starting up out of the midst of the roses and lilies. " Who acts: Brother 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 11

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"Brother Cadmus!" cried Europa, starting up out of the midst of the roses and lilies. "

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**Who acts:** Brother Cadmus · **What happens:** cry, start up · **To what, where:** Europa, midst

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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 (Brother 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:pg976:10:11
# text = "Brother Cadmus!" cried Europa, starting up out of the midst of the roses and lilies. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Brother Cadmus | Europa |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europa=Topic |
| 2 | **start up** | gerund | Brother Cadmus *not said here* |  |  | the midst of the roses and lilies |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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