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title: So, whenever they reached a particularly pleasant spot on a breezy h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So, whenever they reached a particularly pleasant spot on a breezy hillside, or in a sheltered vale, or flowery meadow, on the shore of a calm lake, or along the bank of a clear stream, Cadmus looked eagerly around to see if the situation would suit him for a home. Who acts: peculiarities, Cadmus, s
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 72

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So, whenever they reached a particularly pleasant spot on a breezy hillside, or in a sheltered vale, or flowery meadow, on the shore of a calm lake, or along the bank of a clear stream, Cadmus looked eagerly around to see if the situation would suit him for a home.

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**Who acts:** peculiarities, Cadmus, situation · **What happens:** reach, shelter, look, see, suit · **To what, where:** pleasant spot, breezy hillside, Europa

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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 (peculiarities, Cadmus, situation), 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:pg976:12:72
# text = So, whenever they reached a particularly pleasant spot on a breezy hillside, or in a sheltered vale, or flowery meadow, on the shore of a calm lake, or along the bank of a clear stream, Cadmus looked eagerly around to see if the situation would suit him for a home.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	breezy	breezy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	along	along	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
44	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	around	around	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | peculiarities *= peculiarity* | a pleasant spot |  | a breezy hillside |  | in a sheltered vale or flowery meadow and the shore of a calm lake; whenever *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 2 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **suit** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | the situation | Europa |  |  |  | for a home | 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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