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title: But often and often, at the close of a weary day's journey, did Tele… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 26

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But often and often, at the close of a weary day's journey, did Telephassa and Cadmus, Cilix, and Thasus, remember the pleasant spot in which they had left Phoenix.

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**Who acts:** close, Thasus, mother, weary day · **What happens:** do, remember, leave, journey · **To what, where:** Telephassa, pleasant spot, Phoenix

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (close, Thasus, mother, weary day), 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:pg976:11:26
# text = But often and often, at the close of a weary day's journey, did Telephassa and Cadmus, Cilix, and Thasus, remember the pleasant spot in which they had left Phoenix.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
17	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | the close of a weary day's journey | Telephassa and Cadmus and Cilix |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent telephassa=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remember** | infinitive | Thasus | the pleasant spot |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | mother | Phoenix |  | the pleasant spot |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent phoenix=Theme in which=Location |
| 4 | **journey** |  | a weary day |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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