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title: When Cadmus had thrust a passage through the tangled boughs, and mad… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Cadmus had thrust a passage through the tangled boughs, and made his way into the bower, he did not at first discern the half-hidden cavity. Who acts: Cadmus, Delphi. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 20

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When Cadmus had thrust a passage through the tangled boughs, and made his way into the bower, he did not at first discern the half-hidden cavity.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, Delphi · **What happens:** have, tangle, make, not discern · **To what, where:** thrust, way, bower, hidden cavity

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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, Delphi), 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:pg976:12:20
# text = When Cadmus had thrust a passage through the tangled boughs, and made his way into the bower, he did not at first discern the half-hidden cavity.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
4	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tangled	tangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	obl	_	_
25	discern	discern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cavity	cavity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Cadmus | thrust |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | Cadmus *not said here* | Delphi's way |  | the bower |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent way=Material into bower=Product |
| 4 | **not** **discern** | past · do-support | Delphi | the hidden cavity |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cavity=Stimulus |

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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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