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title: They went thither to fetch some, leaving Cadmus stretched on the gro… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went thither to fetch some, leaving Cadmus stretched on the ground along with the brindled cow; for, now that he had found a place of rest, it seemed as if all the weariness of his pilgrimage, ever since he left King Agenor's palace, had fallen upon him at once. Who acts: companions, Cadmus, it
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 7

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They went thither to fetch some, leaving Cadmus stretched on the ground along with the brindled cow; for, now that he had found a place of rest, it seemed as if all the weariness of his pilgrimage, ever since he left King Agenor's palace, had fallen upon him at once.

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**Who acts:** companions, Cadmus, it · **What happens:** go, fetch, leave, stretch, find, seem · **To what, where:** some, Cadmus, ground, place, palace

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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 (companions, Cadmus, it), 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:pg976:13:7
# text = They went thither to fetch some, leaving Cadmus stretched on the ground along with the brindled cow; for, now that he had found a place of rest, it seemed as if all the weariness of his pilgrimage, ever since he left King Agenor's palace, had fallen upon him at once.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	brindled	brindled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	46	advmod	_	_
44	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
47	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	conj	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | companions *= companion* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | companions *= companion* *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | companions *= companion* *not said here* | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stretch** | participle | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | along the brindled cow | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along cow=Location |
| 5 | **find** | past · perfect | Cadmus | a place of rest |  |  | now |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 6 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  | as all weariness of Cadmus's pilgrimage | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | past | Cadmus | King Agenor's palace |  |  | ever |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 8 | **fall** | past · perfect | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Cadmus | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=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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