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title: Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and se… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. Who acts: Mother, Ceres. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 1

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Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields.

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**Who acts:** Mother, Ceres · **What happens:** be, let, go · **To what, where:** Ceres, fields

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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 (Mother, Ceres), 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:pg976:20:1
# text = Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields.
1	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mother |  |  |  |  | of Ceres's daughter; exceedingly, fond *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | Mother *not said here* | Ceres |  |  |  | seldom *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | Ceres *not said here* |  |  | the fields |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_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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