---
title: Poor Cadmus found it more wearisome to travel alone than to bear all… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Cadmus found it more wearisome to travel alone than to bear all his dear mother's weight, while she had kept him company. Who acts: Poor Cadmus, joke, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/9/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/) / 9

# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 9

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Poor Cadmus found it more wearisome to travel alone than to bear all his dear mother's weight, while she had kept him company.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Poor Cadmus, joke, Cadmus · **What happens:** find, travel, bear, keep · **To what, where:** joke, weight, mariner

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Poor Cadmus, joke, Cadmus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg976:12:9
# text = Poor Cadmus found it more wearisome to travel alone than to bear all his dear mother's weight, while she had kept him company.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	wearisome	wearisome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Poor Cadmus | joke |  |  |  | wearisome *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | joke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive | joke *not said here* | mariner's dear mother's weight |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient |
| 4 | **keep** | past · perfect | Cadmus | mariner |  |  |  | company *obl:unmarked* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/8/)
- next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/10/)
- ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/12/)