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title: Perhaps I can manage the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth as w… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Perhaps I can manage the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth as well as Cadmus did." Who acts: I, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 27

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Perhaps I can manage the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth as well as Cadmus did."

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**Who acts:** I, Cadmus · **What happens:** manage, do · **To what, where:** quarrelsome sons

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (I, Cadmus), 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:pg976:28:27
# text = Perhaps I can manage the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth as well as Cadmus did."
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quarrelsome	quarrelsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | can | I | the quarrelsome sons of the dragon's teeth |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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