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title: But in the days of Cadmus, as I have told you, there was only this r… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the days of Cadmus, as I have told you, there was only this rustic bower, with its abundance of green foliage, and a tuft of shrubbery, that ran wild over the mysterious hole in the hillside. Who acts: I, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 19

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But in the days of Cadmus, as I have told you, there was only this rustic bower, with its abundance of green foliage, and a tuft of shrubbery, that ran wild over the mysterious hole in the hillside.

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**Who acts:** I, that · **What happens:** tell, be, run · **To what, where:** Cadmus, you, rustic bower, mysterious hole · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, that), 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:pg976:12:19
# text = But in the days of Cadmus, as I have told you, there was only this rustic bower, with its abundance of green foliage, and a tuft of shrubbery, that ran wild over the mysterious hole in the hillside.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	rustic	rustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	shrubbery	shrubbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	parataxis	_	_
36	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect | I | Cadmus *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | this rustic bower and bower's abundance of green foliage and a tuft of shrubbery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | past | that |  |  | the mysterious hole in the hillside |  | wild *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hole=Trajectory |

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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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