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title: They still had a very furious look, and, if Cadmus happened to glanc… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They still had a very furious look, and, if Cadmus happened to glance aside, would glare at one another, with fire flashing out of their eyes. Who acts: teeth, Cadmus, fire. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 62

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They still had a very furious look, and, if Cadmus happened to glance aside, would glare at one another, with fire flashing out of their eyes.

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**Who acts:** teeth, Cadmus, fire · **What happens:** have, happen, glance, glare, flash · **To what, where:** furious look, eyes

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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 (teeth, Cadmus, fire), 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:pg976:13:62
# text = They still had a very furious look, and, if Cadmus happened to glance aside, would glare at one another, with fire flashing out of their eyes.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	glance	glance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	glare	glare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
26	flashing	flash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | teeth *= tooth* | a furious look |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glance** | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **glare** | would | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at one | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at one=Location |
| 5 | **flash** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  | teeth's eyes |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out eye=Location |

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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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