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title: "No, Cadmus," said the same voice that had spoken to him in the fiel… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, Cadmus," said the same voice that had spoken to him in the field of the armed men, "this is not that dear sister Europa whom you have sought so faithfully all over the wide world. Who acts: Cadmus, this, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 2

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"No, Cadmus," said the same voice that had spoken to him in the field of the armed men, "this is not that dear sister Europa whom you have sought so faithfully all over the wide world.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, this, you · **What happens:** say, speak, not be, seek · **To what, where:** same voice, Cadmus, field, dear sister, wide world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, this, you), 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:pg976:14:2
# text = "No, Cadmus," said the same voice that had spoken to him in the field of the armed men, "this is not that dear sister Europa whom you have sought so faithfully all over the wide world.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
31	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
32	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	all	all	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	over	over	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cadmus | the same voice |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the same voice | Cadmus | the field of the armed men |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | that dear sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | that dear sister |  | the wide world |  | faithfully *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Theme over world=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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