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title: But do not you suppose that it made Cadmus sorrowful to think of the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But do not you suppose that it made Cadmus sorrowful to think of the melancholy fate which had befallen those poor, friendly people, who had followed the cow along with him? Who acts: you, thrust, Cadmus, poor friendly people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Tee
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 19

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But do not you suppose that it made Cadmus sorrowful to think of the melancholy fate which had befallen those poor, friendly people, who had followed the cow along with him?

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**Who acts:** you, thrust, Cadmus, poor friendly people · **What happens:** not suppose, make, think, befall, follow · **To what, where:** Cadmus, melancholy fate, poor friendly people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, thrust, Cadmus, poor friendly people), 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:pg976:13:19
# text = But do not you suppose that it made Cadmus sorrowful to think of the melancholy fate which had befallen those poor, friendly people, who had followed the cow along with him?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	along	along	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **suppose** | infinitive · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | thrust | Cadmus |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cadmus=Product |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the melancholy fate | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **befall** | past · perfect · passive | that poor friendly people | the melancholy fate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **follow** | past · perfect · passive |  | that poor friendly people |  |  |  | along Cadmus | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme cow=Attribute |

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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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