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title: Several persons who happened to see the brindled cow, and Cadmus fol… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Several persons who happened to see the brindled cow, and Cadmus following behind, began to trudge after her, precisely as he did. Who acts: Several persons, Cadmus, herdsman. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 79

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Several persons who happened to see the brindled cow, and Cadmus following behind, began to trudge after her, precisely as he did.

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**Who acts:** Several persons, Cadmus, herdsman · **What happens:** happen, see, follow, begin, trudge, do · **To what, where:** brindled cow

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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 (Several persons, Cadmus, herdsman), 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:pg976:12:79
# text = Several persons who happened to see the brindled cow, and Cadmus following behind, began to trudge after her, precisely as he did.
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	brindled	brindled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	trudge	trudge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | Several persons |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Several persons *not said here* | the brindled cow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **trudge** | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  | after Cadmus | precisely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | past | herdsman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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