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title: He had not gone his length, however, when the brave Cadmus gave him… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not gone his length, however, when the brave Cadmus gave him a sword thrust that finished the battle; and creeping out of the gateway of the creature's jaws, there he beheld him still wriggling his vast bulk, although there was no longer life enough in him to harm a little child. Who acts: Ca
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 18

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He had not gone his length, however, when the brave Cadmus gave him a sword thrust that finished the battle; and creeping out of the gateway of the creature's jaws, there he beheld him still wriggling his vast bulk, although there was no longer life enough in him to harm a little child.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, brave Cadmus, sword thrust, wriggling · **What happens:** not go, give, finish, creep out, behold, wriggle · **To what, where:** length, sword thrust, tuft, battle, gateway, vast bulk

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, brave Cadmus, sword thrust, wriggling), 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:pg976:13:18
# text = He had not gone his length, however, when the brave Cadmus gave him a sword thrust that finished the battle; and creeping out of the gateway of the creature's jaws, there he beheld him still wriggling his vast bulk, although there was no longer life enough in him to harm a little child.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gateway	gateway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	jaws	jaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	csubj	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	bulk	bulk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	no	no	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
51	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
52	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nmod	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	advcl	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | past · perfect | Cadmus | Cadmus's length |  |  |  | however *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the brave Cadmus | a sword thrust | tuft |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thrust=Theme |
| 3 | **finish** | past | a sword thrust | the battle |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality battle=Eventuality |
| 4 | **creep out** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | the gateway of the creature's jaws |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location gateway=Theme |
| 5 | **behold** | past | Cadmus | tuft |  | there |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **wriggle** | gerund |  | Cadmus's vast bulk |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | wriggling | life |  |  |  | in Cadmus; enough, long *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **harm** | to-infinitive | wriggling *not said here* | a little child |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

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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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