--- title: And while the three-headed Cerberus was fawning so lovingly on King… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And while the three-headed Cerberus was fawning so lovingly on King Pluto, there was the dragon tail wagging against its will, and looking as cross and ill-natured as you can imagine, on its own separate account. Who acts: headed Cerberus, dragon tail, you, dog. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by N --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/128/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/) / 128 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 128 And while the three-headed Cerberus was fawning so lovingly on King Pluto, there was the dragon tail wagging against its will, and looking as cross and ill-natured as you can imagine, on its own separate account. **Who acts:** headed Cerberus, dragon tail, you, dog · **What happens:** fawn, be, wag, look, nature, imagine · **To what, where:** dragon tail, Pluto, own separate account 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 (headed Cerberus, dragon tail, you, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:20:128 # text = And while the three-headed Cerberus was fawning so lovingly on King Pluto, there was the dragon tail wagging against its will, and looking as cross and ill-natured as you can imagine, on its own separate account. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Cerberus Cerberus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 fawning fawn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 lovingly lovingly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:desc _ _ 14 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 17 expl _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 21 wagging wag VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 against against ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 natured nature VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 41 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fawn** | past · progressive | the headed Cerberus | | | | | lovingly *property* | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | the headed Cerberus *not said here* | the dragon tail | | Pluto King | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wag** | future | the dragon tail *not said here* | | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **look** | gerund | the headed Cerberus *not said here* | | | | | as cross | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **nature** | participle | the headed Cerberus *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **imagine** | can | you | | | dog's own separate account | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **account** | | dog | | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/127/) - next →: [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/1/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/)