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title: It repeated, over and over again, the following sentence, which, aft… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It repeated, over and over again, the following sentence, which, after all, was so like the vague whistle of a blast of air, that Cadmus really did not quite know whether it meant anything or not: Who acts: language, following sentence, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 28

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It repeated, over and over again, the following sentence, which, after all, was so like the vague whistle of a blast of air, that Cadmus really did not quite know whether it meant anything or not:

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**Who acts:** language, following sentence, Cadmus · **What happens:** repeat, follow, be, not know, mean, blast · **To what, where:** following sentence, anything, air

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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 (language, following sentence, Cadmus), 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:pg976:12:28
# text = It repeated, over and over again, the following sentence, which, after all, was so like the vague whistle of a blast of air, that Cadmus really did not quite know whether it meant anything or not:
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
32	really	really	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
37	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
40	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	39	obj	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | language | the following sentence |  |  |  | over *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the following sentence |  |  |  |  | like the vague whistle; of a blast of air | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **mean** | past | language | anything |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 6 | **blast** |  |  | air |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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