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title: "We have seen no such wondrous sight," the people would reply; and v… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "We have seen no such wondrous sight," the people would reply; and very often, taking Cadmus aside, they whispered to him, "Is this stately and sad-looking woman your mother? Who acts: We, people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependen
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 84

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"We have seen no such wondrous sight," the people would reply; and very often, taking Cadmus aside, they whispered to him, "Is this stately and sad-looking woman your mother?

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**Who acts:** We, people · **What happens:** see, reply, take, whisper, look, be · **To what, where:** such wondrous sight, Cadmus, sight, looking woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (We, people), 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:pg976:11:84
# text = "We have seen no such wondrous sight," the people would reply; and very often, taking Cadmus aside, they whispered to him, "Is this stately and sad-looking woman your mother?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
21	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
32	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | We | no such wondrous sight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | would | the people | no such wondrous sight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sight=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | We *not said here* |  | Cadmus |  |  | aside, often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cadmus=Destination |
| 4 | **whisper** *speech: ask* | past | people |  | sight |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | stately *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this looking woman and your mother |  |  |  |  | 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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