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title: Of all the child's outcries, this last shriek was the only one that… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of all the child's outcries, this last shriek was the only one that reached the ears of Mother Ceres. Who acts: last shriek, only one. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 45

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Of all the child's outcries, this last shriek was the only one that reached the ears of Mother Ceres.

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**Who acts:** last shriek, only one · **What happens:** be, reach · **To what, where:** only one, ears

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last shriek, only one), 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:pg976:21:45
# text = Of all the child's outcries, this last shriek was the only one that reached the ears of Mother Ceres.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	outcries	outcry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Ceres	Cere	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this last shriek | the only one |  |  |  | of child outcries | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the only one | the ears of Mother Ceres |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=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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