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title: Without hesitating an instant, Cadmus stepped forward, with the aspe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Without hesitating an instant, Cadmus stepped forward, with the aspect of a king and a leader, and extending his drawn sword amongst them, spoke to the warriors in a stern and commanding voice. Who acts: Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 57

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Without hesitating an instant, Cadmus stepped forward, with the aspect of a king and a leader, and extending his drawn sword amongst them, spoke to the warriors in a stern and commanding voice.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus · **What happens:** hesitate, step forward, extend, draw, speak, command · **To what, where:** instant, drawn sword, stern · **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 (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:pg976:13:57
# text = Without hesitating an instant, Cadmus stepped forward, with the aspect of a king and a leader, and extending his drawn sword amongst them, spoke to the warriors in a stern and commanding voice.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hesitating	hesitate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	commanding	command	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	amod	_	_
37	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hesitate** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | a instant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **step forward** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | with the aspect of a king and a leader; forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **extend** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | Cadmus's drawn sword |  |  |  | amongst parts *= part* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  | a stern and commanding voice |  | to the warriors | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to warrior=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **command** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: 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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