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title: Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix, and Thasus clustered round Queen Telephassa,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix, and Thasus clustered round Queen Telephassa, grasping her skirts, and begging her to lean upon their shoulders whenever she felt weary. Who acts: Cadmus, queen. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 83

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Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix, and Thasus clustered round Queen Telephassa, grasping her skirts, and begging her to lean upon their shoulders whenever she felt weary.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, queen · **What happens:** cluster, grasp, beg, lean, feel · **To what, where:** skirts, queen, shoulders

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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 (Cadmus, queen), 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:pg976:10:83
# text = Cadmus, Phoenix, Cilix, and Thasus clustered round Queen Telephassa, grasping her skirts, and begging her to lean upon their shoulders whenever she felt weary.
1	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	grasping	grasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	skirts	skirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl:relcl	_	_
29	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cluster** | past | Cadmus  Phoenix and Cilix |  |  |  |  | round Queen | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grasp** | gerund | Cadmus  Phoenix and Cilix *not said here* | queen's skirts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skirt=Stimulus |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | Cadmus  Phoenix and Cilix *not said here* |  | queen |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lean** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Cadmus  Phoenix and Cilix *not said here* |  |  | Cadmus's shoulders |  | whenever *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon shoulder=Location |
| 5 | **feel** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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