--- title: And there stood Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, gazing at this sad spect… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And there stood Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, gazing at this sad spectacle, through their tears, until they could no longer distinguish the bull's snowy head from the white-capped billows that seemed to boil up out of the sea's depths around him. Who acts: Cadmus, capped billows. 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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 (Cadmus, capped billows), 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:pg976:10:66 # text = And there stood Cadmus, Phoenix, and Cilix, gazing at this sad spectacle, through their tears, until they could no longer distinguish the bull's snowy head from the white-capped billows that seemed to boil up out of the sea's depths around him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Phoenix Phoenix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 Cilix Cilix PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 gazing gaze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 14 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 spectacle spectacle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 through through ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 until until SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 24 no no ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 26 advmod _ _ 26 distinguish distinguish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 snowy snowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 capped cap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 billows billow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 boil boil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 out out ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 47 's 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 49 around around ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | | Cadmus Phoenix and Cilix | | there | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cadmus=Stimulus | | 2 | **gaze** | gerund | | | | | | through Cadmus's tears; at this sad spectacle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at spectacle=Theme | | 3 | **distinguish** | could | Cadmus | the bull's snowy head | | | | from the capped billows; long *property* | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme from billow=Co-Theme | | 4 | **cap** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** | past | the capped billows | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **boil up** | to-infinitive | the capped billows *not said here* | | | the sea's depths around bull | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/67/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)