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title: Proserpina peeped at his face through the gathering dusk, and hoped… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Proserpina peeped at his face through the gathering dusk, and hoped that he might not be so very wicked as she at first thought him. Who acts: Proserpina, visage. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 108

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Proserpina peeped at his face through the gathering dusk, and hoped that he might not be so very wicked as she at first thought him.

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**Who acts:** Proserpina, visage · **What happens:** peep, hope, not be, think · **To what, where:** visage

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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 (Proserpina, visage), 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:pg976:20:108
# text = Proserpina peeped at his face through the gathering dusk, and hoped that he might not be so very wicked as she at first thought him.
1	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	advmod	_	_
25	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | past | Proserpina |  |  |  | dusk | at visage's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme |
| 2 | **hope** | past | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **not** **is** | might | visage |  |  |  |  | as Proserpina; wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Proserpina *not said here* | visage |  |  |  | first *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |

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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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