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title: Who, but Mother Ceres, making the corn grow, and too busy to notice… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Who, but Mother Ceres, making the corn grow, and too busy to notice the golden chariot as it went rattling along. Who acts: Mother Ceres, chariot. 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 100

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Who, but Mother Ceres, making the corn grow, and too busy to notice the golden chariot as it went rattling along.

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**Who acts:** Mother Ceres, chariot · **What happens:** make, grow, notice, go, rattle · **To what, where:** corn, golden chariot

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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, chariot), 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:pg976:20:100
# text = Who, but Mother Ceres, making the corn grow, and too busy to notice the golden chariot as it went rattling along.
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
4	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
23	rattling	rattle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	along	along	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | gerund | Mother Ceres *not said here* | the corn |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset corn=Product |
| 2 | **grow** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **notice** | to-infinitive |  | the golden chariot |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chariot=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | past | chariot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **rattle** | gerund | chariot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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