---
title: These, however, were now a little past their bloom; and wishing to g… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These, however, were now a little past their bloom; and wishing to give her friends the freshest and loveliest blossoms, she strayed farther into the fields, and found some that made her scream with delight. Who acts: These, Proserpina, some, heads. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawt
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/26/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 26

# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 26

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
These, however, were now a little past their bloom; and wishing to give her friends the freshest and loveliest blossoms, she strayed farther into the fields, and found some that made her scream with delight.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** These, Proserpina, some, heads · **What happens:** be, wish, give, stray, find, make · **To what, where:** freshest blossoms, friends, Proserpina · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (These, Proserpina, some, heads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg976:20:26
# text = These, however, were now a little past their bloom; and wishing to give her friends the freshest and loveliest blossoms, she strayed farther into the fields, and found some that made her scream with delight.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	past	past	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	freshest	fresh	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	conj	_	_
23	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	strayed	stray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
27	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	nsubj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	ccomp	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	scream	scream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | These |  |  |  | now | past heads's bloom; however, little *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | gerund | These *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | These *not said here* | the freshest blossoms | Proserpina's friends |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient blossom=Theme |
| 4 | **stray** | past | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | past | some | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **scream** *speech: express* | infinitive | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with delight | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme |
| 8 | **bloom** |  | heads *= head* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/25/)
- next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/27/)
- ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/)