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title: Just then, there came a splendid butterfly, fluttering along the mea… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then, there came a splendid butterfly, fluttering along the meadow; and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix set off in pursuit of it, crying out that it was a flower with wings. Who acts: splendid butterfly, Cilix, butterfly. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 5

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Just then, there came a splendid butterfly, fluttering along the meadow; and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix set off in pursuit of it, crying out that it was a flower with wings.

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**Who acts:** splendid butterfly, Cilix, butterfly · **What happens:** come, flutter, set off, cry out, be, pursue · **To what, where:** Cadmus, meadow, pursuit, flower, butterfly · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (splendid butterfly, Cilix, butterfly), 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:pg976:10:5
# text = Just then, there came a splendid butterfly, fluttering along the meadow; and Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix set off in pursuit of it, crying out that it was a flower with wings.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	ccomp	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a splendid butterfly | Cadmus |  | there | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flutter** | gerund | a splendid butterfly *not said here* |  |  | the meadow |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along meadow=Location |
| 3 | **set off** | past | Cilix |  |  | pursuit of butterfly |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | Cilix *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | butterfly | a flower |  |  |  | with wings | tree rules |
| 6 | **pursue** |  |  | butterfly |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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