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title: But Cadmus toiled and tugged, and after pounding the monstrous head… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Cadmus toiled and tugged, and after pounding the monstrous head almost to pieces with a great stone, he at last collected as many teeth as might have filled a bushel or two. Who acts: Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 26

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But Cadmus toiled and tugged, and after pounding the monstrous head almost to pieces with a great stone, he at last collected as many teeth as might have filled a bushel or two.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus · **What happens:** toil, tug, pound, collect, fill · **To what, where:** last filled bushel, monstrous head

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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:pg976:13:26
# text = But Cadmus toiled and tugged, and after pounding the monstrous head almost to pieces with a great stone, he at last collected as many teeth as might have filled a bushel or two.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	tugged	tug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	pounding	pound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
24	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past | Cadmus |  |  | a last filled bushel |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bushel=Trajectory |
| 2 | **tug** | past | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pound** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | the monstrous head |  |  |  | to pieces *result*; with a great stone | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient to piece=Result with stone=Instrument |
| 4 | **collect** | participle | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as many teeth | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fill** | might · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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