--- title: Therefore, when Cadmus and his two brothers came crying home, and to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Therefore, when Cadmus and his two brothers came crying home, and told him how that a white bull had carried off their sister, and swam with her over the sea, the king was quite beside himself with grief and rage. Who acts: Cadmus, king. 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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, king), 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:pg976:10:70 # text = Therefore, when Cadmus and his two brothers came crying home, and told him how that a white bull had carried off their sister, and swam with her over the sea, the king was quite beside himself with grief and rage. 1 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 4 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 11 home home ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 ccomp _ _ 23 off off ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 38 quite quite ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 beside beside ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Cadmus and king's two brothers | | | | | therefore *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Cadmus and king's two brothers *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Cadmus and king's two brothers *not said here* | | king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **carry off** | past · perfect · passive | | a white bull | | | | off Cadmus's sister | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary sister=Value | | 5 | **swim** | past | Cadmus and king's two brothers *not said here* | | | the sea | | with sister; with grief and rage | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Trajectory | | 6 | **is** | past | the king | | | | | beside king | tree rules | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/71/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)