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title: Cadmus was glad of somebody to converse with, and therefore talked v… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cadmus was glad of somebody to converse with, and therefore talked very freely to these good people. Who acts: Cadmus. 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 80

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Cadmus was glad of somebody to converse with, and therefore talked very freely to these good people.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus · **What happens:** be, converse, talk

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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), 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:pg976:12:80
# text = Cadmus was glad of somebody to converse with, and therefore talked very freely to these good people.
1	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	converse	converse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | of somebody; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **converse** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | past | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this good people; freely, therefore *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to people=Co-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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