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title: The strangers grew very fond of Cadmus, and resolved never to leave… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The strangers grew very fond of Cadmus, and resolved never to leave him, but to help him build a city wherever the cow might lie down. Who acts: strangers, cow. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 94

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The strangers grew very fond of Cadmus, and resolved never to leave him, but to help him build a city wherever the cow might lie down.

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**Who acts:** strangers, cow · **What happens:** grow, resolve, not leave, help, build, lie down · **To what, where:** king, city

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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 (strangers, cow), 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:pg976:12:94
# text = The strangers grew very fond of Cadmus, and resolved never to leave him, but to help him build a city wherever the cow might lie down.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the strangers |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **resolve** | past | the strangers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | to-infinitive | the strangers *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | king |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **build** | infinitive | the strangers *not said here* | a city |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product |
| 6 | **lie down** | might | the cow |  |  |  |  | down, wherever *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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