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title: But, one day, Telephassa seemed feebler than usual, and leaned almos… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, one day, Telephassa seemed feebler than usual, and leaned almost her whole weight on the arm of Cadmus, and walked more slowly than ever before. Who acts: Telephassa. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 88

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But, one day, Telephassa seemed feebler than usual, and leaned almost her whole weight on the arm of Cadmus, and walked more slowly than ever before.

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**Who acts:** Telephassa · **What happens:** seem, learn, walk · **To what, where:** whole weight, arm

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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 (Telephassa), 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:pg976:11:88
# text = But, one day, Telephassa seemed feebler than usual, and leaned almost her whole weight on the arm of Cadmus, and walked more slowly than ever before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	feebler	feeble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Telephassa |  |  |  | day | feeble *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | past | Telephassa *not said here* | Telephassa's whole weight |  | the arm of Cadmus |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Topic |
| 3 | **walk** | past | Telephassa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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