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title: Cerberus, on the other hand, was evidently rejoiced to see his maste… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Cerberus, on the other hand, was evidently rejoiced to see his master, and expressed his attachment, as other dogs do, by wagging his tail at a great rate. Who acts: other dogs, Cerberus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tre
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 126

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Cerberus, on the other hand, was evidently rejoiced to see his master, and expressed his attachment, as other dogs do, by wagging his tail at a great rate.

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**Who acts:** other dogs, Cerberus · **What happens:** rejoice, see, express, do, wag, attach · **To what, where:** Cerberus, master, attachment, tail, great rate

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other dogs, Cerberus), 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:pg976:20:126
# text = Cerberus, on the other hand, was evidently rejoiced to see his master, and expressed his attachment, as other dogs do, by wagging his tail at a great rate.
1	Cerberus	Cerberus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	attachment	attachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	wagging	wag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past · passive |  | Cerberus |  |  |  | evidently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Cerberus's master |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer master=Stimulus |
| 3 | **express** | past |  | Cerberus's attachment |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attachment=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | other dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wag** | gerund | other dogs *not said here* | Cerberus's tail |  | a great rate |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 6 | **attach** |  | Cerberus |  |  |  |  |  | nom attachment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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