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title: But no milkmaid came; no herdsman drove her back; and Cadmus followe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But no milkmaid came; no herdsman drove her back; and Cadmus followed the stray Brindle till he was almost ready to drop down with fatigue. Who acts: milkmaid, herdsman, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 75

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But no milkmaid came; no herdsman drove her back; and Cadmus followed the stray Brindle till he was almost ready to drop down with fatigue.

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**Who acts:** milkmaid, herdsman, Cadmus · **What happens:** come, drive back, follow, be, drop down · **To what, where:** milkmaid, stray Brindle

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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 (milkmaid, herdsman, 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:pg976:12:75
# text = But no milkmaid came; no herdsman drove her back; and Cadmus followed the stray Brindle till he was almost ready to drop down with fatigue.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	milkmaid	milkmaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	stray	stray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Brindle	Brindle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | no milkmaid |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive back** | past | no herdsman | milkmaid |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | Cadmus | the stray Brindle |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brindle=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | herdsman |  |  |  |  | almost, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drop down** | to-infinitive | herdsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fatigue | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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