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title: And here he was, after all his toils and troubles, in a solitary pla… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And here he was, after all his toils and troubles, in a solitary place, with not a single human being to help him build a hut. Who acts: Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 21

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And here he was, after all his toils and troubles, in a solitary place, with not a single human being to help him build a hut.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus · **What happens:** be, help, not be, toil · **To what, where:** Cadmus

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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), 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:pg976:13:21
# text = And here he was, after all his toils and troubles, in a solitary place, with not a single human being to help him build a hut.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	toils	toil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	csubj	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  | after a solitary place |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | Cadmus |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **not** **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | build *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **toil** |  | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | nom toil «act intransitive»: poss=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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