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title: So King Cadmus dwelt in the palace, with his new friend Harmonia, an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So King Cadmus dwelt in the palace, with his new friend Harmonia, and found a great deal of comfort in his magnificent abode, but would doubtless have found as much, if not more, in the humblest cottage by the wayside. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Drag
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 5, sentence 5

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So King Cadmus dwelt in the palace, with his new friend Harmonia, and found a great deal of comfort in his magnificent abode, but would doubtless have found as much, if not more, in the humblest cottage by the wayside.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** dwell, find, deal · **To what, where:** palace, great deal, much, comfort · **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 (King), 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:pg976:14:5
# text = So King Cadmus dwelt in the palace, with his new friend Harmonia, and found a great deal of comfort in his magnificent abode, but would doubtless have found as much, if not more, in the humblest cottage by the wayside.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	Harmonia	Harmonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	csubj	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	humblest	humble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	42	amod	_	_
42	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | King |  |  | the palace |  | with King's new friend | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | King *not said here* | a great deal of comfort in King's magnificent abode |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent deal=Theme more=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | present · perfect |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | comfort in King's magnificent abode |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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