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title: "Did there really come any words out of the hole?" thought Cadmus; "… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Did there really come any words out of the hole?" thought Cadmus; "or have I been dreaming all this while?" Who acts: Cadmus, gust. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 44

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"Did there really come any words out of the hole?" thought Cadmus; "or have I been dreaming all this while?"

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, gust · **What happens:** come, think, dream · **To what, where:** words, 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 (Cadmus, gust), 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:pg976:12:44
# text = "Did there really come any words out of the hole?" thought Cadmus; "or have I been dreaming all this while?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
22	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | past · do-support |  | any words |  | the hole |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dream** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | gust |  |  |  | while |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

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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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