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title: When Cadmus and his companions came up with her, there was the brind… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Cadmus and his companions came up with her, there was the brindled cow taking her ease, chewing her cud, and looking them quietly in the face; as if this was just the spot she had been seeking for, and as if it were all a matter of course. Who acts: Cadmus, brindled cow, this, cow. A sentence o
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 101

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When Cadmus and his companions came up with her, there was the brindled cow taking her ease, chewing her cud, and looking them quietly in the face; as if this was just the spot she had been seeking for, and as if it were all a matter of course.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, brindled cow, this, cow, it · **What happens:** come up, be, take, chew, look, seek · **To what, where:** ease, cud, companions, face, spot

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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 (Cadmus, brindled cow, this, cow), 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:pg976:12:101
# text = When Cadmus and his companions came up with her, there was the brindled cow taking her ease, chewing her cud, and looking them quietly in the face; as if this was just the spot she had been seeking for, and as if it were all a matter of course.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	brindled	brindled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
16	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cud	cud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	aux	_	_
42	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	acl:relcl	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	52	case	_	_
47	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
50	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	52	det:predet	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	52	advmod	_	_
54	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | past | Cadmus and joy's companions |  |  |  |  | with cow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | the brindled cow |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the brindled cow *not said here* | cow's ease |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ease=Theme |
| 4 | **chew** | gerund | the brindled cow *not said here* | cow's cud |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | the brindled cow *not said here* | companions *= companion* |  | the face |  | quietly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Attribute |
| 6 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | this | the spot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **seek** | past · perfect · progressive | cow | the spot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | as all matter | 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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