--- title: Before setting out, Cadmus helped Thasus build a bower; while Teleph… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Before setting out, Cadmus helped Thasus build a bower; while Telephassa, being too infirm to give any great assistance, advised them how to fit it up and furnish it, so that it might be as comfortable as a hut of branches could. Who acts: Cadmus, Thasus, Telephassa, assistance. 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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, Thasus, Telephassa, assistance), 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:pg976:11:69 # text = Before setting out, Cadmus helped Thasus build a bower; while Telephassa, being too infirm to give any great assistance, advised them how to fit it up and furnish it, so that it might be as comfortable as a hut of branches could. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 setting set VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 3 out out ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Thasus Thasus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 bower bower NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 13 Telephassa Telephassa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 cop _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 infirm infirm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 assistance assistance NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 24 advised advise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 furnish furnish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 41 mark _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 cop _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 conj _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 47 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set out** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **help** | past | Cadmus | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **build** | infinitive | Thasus | a bower | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bower=Product | | 4 | **is** | gerund | Telephassa *not said here* | | | | | infirm *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | Telephassa *not said here* | any great assistance | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme | | 6 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | Telephassa | Cadmus | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **fit up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | assistance | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **furnish** | infinitive | | assistance | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 9 | **is** | might | assistance | | | | | comfortable *property* | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/70/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/)