--- title: I will not sadden you, my little hearers, with telling how Telephass… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I will not sadden you, my little hearers, with telling how Telephassa died and was buried, but will only say, that her dying smile grew brighter, instead of vanishing from her dead face; so that Cadmus left convinced that, at her very first step into the better world, she had caught Europa in her ar --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/) / 1 # Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 1 I will not sadden you, my little hearers, with telling how Telephassa died and was buried, but will only say, that her dying smile grew brighter, instead of vanishing from her dead face; so that Cadmus left convinced that, at her very first step into the better world, she had caught Europa in her arms. **Who acts:** I, Telephassa, dying smile, Cadmus · **What happens:** not sadden, tell, die, bury, say, grow · **To what, where:** you, dead face, that, better world, Cadmus, arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Telephassa, dying smile, Cadmus), 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:pg976:12:1 # text = I will not sadden you, my little hearers, with telling how Telephassa died and was buried, but will only say, that her dying smile grew brighter, instead of vanishing from her dead face; so that Cadmus left convinced that, at her very first step into the better world, she had caught Europa in her arms. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 sadden sadden VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hearers hearer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 with with SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 13 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 Telephassa Telephassa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 dying die VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 amod _ _ 28 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 34 mark _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 vanishing vanish VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 so so SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 Cadmus Cadmus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 44 convinced convinced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 47 at at ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 49 very very ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 51 amod _ _ 51 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 52 into into ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 55 amod _ _ 55 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj:pass _ _ 58 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 59 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 conj _ _ 60 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 obj _ _ 61 in in ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sadden** | future | I | you | | | | my little hearers *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **die** | past | Telephassa | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **bury** | past · passive | Telephassa *not said here* | | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **die** | gerund | | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **grow** | past | Telephassa's dying smile | | | | | bright *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **vanish** | gerund | Telephassa's dying smile *not said here* | | | Telephassa's dead face | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from face=Initial\_Location | | 9 | **leave** | past | Cadmus | that | | the better world | | at Telephassa's first step | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Theme at step=Location | | 10 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive | | Cadmus | | Telephassa's arms | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary europa=Theme | | 11 | **smile** | | Telephassa | | | | | | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 12 | **step** | | Telephassa | | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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: [The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, 110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/110/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/2/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/)