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title: Cadmus hardly knew whether to consider them as men, or some odd kind… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cadmus hardly knew whether to consider them as men, or some odd kind of vegetable; although, on the whole, he concluded that there was human nature in them, because they were so fond of trumpets and weapons, and so ready to shed blood. Who acts: Cadmus, human nature, teeth. A sentence of «Tanglewood
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 64

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Cadmus hardly knew whether to consider them as men, or some odd kind of vegetable; although, on the whole, he concluded that there was human nature in them, because they were so fond of trumpets and weapons, and so ready to shed blood.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, human nature, teeth · **What happens:** know, consider, conclude, be, shed · **To what, where:** teeth, blood · **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, human nature, teeth), 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:pg976:13:64
# text = Cadmus hardly knew whether to consider them as men, or some odd kind of vegetable; although, on the whole, he concluded that there was human nature in them, because they were so fond of trumpets and weapons, and so ready to shed blood.
1	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
28	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
29	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	ccomp	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	shed	shed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consider** | to-infinitive |  | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  | as men | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute |
| 3 | **conclude** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | human nature in teeth |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  | of trumpets and weapons; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **shed** | to-infinitive | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |

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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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