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title: As for Telephassa, and Cadmus, and the good Thasus, it grieves me to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As for Telephassa, and Cadmus, and the good Thasus, it grieves me to think of them, still keeping up that weary pilgrimage. Who acts: One, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 53

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As for Telephassa, and Cadmus, and the good Thasus, it grieves me to think of them, still keeping up that weary pilgrimage.

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**Who acts:** One, that · **What happens:** grieve, think, keep up, pilgrimage · **To what, where:** me

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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 (One, that), 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:pg976:11:53
# text = As for Telephassa, and Cadmus, and the good Thasus, it grieves me to think of them, still keeping up that weary pilgrimage.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grieves	grieve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | present | One | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | One *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Cadmus | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep up** | gerund | One *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pilgrimage** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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