--- title: It seemed so unaccountable, however, that the girl should have stray… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It seemed so unaccountable, however, that the girl should have strayed over so many lands and seas (which she herself could not have traversed without the aid of her winged dragons), that the good Ceres tried to believe that it must be the child of some other parent, and not her own darling Proserpi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/48/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/) / 48 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 48 It seemed so unaccountable, however, that the girl should have strayed over so many lands and seas (which she herself could not have traversed without the aid of her winged dragons), that the good Ceres tried to believe that it must be the child of some other parent, and not her own darling Proserpina, who had uttered this lamentable cry. **Who acts:** It, aid, good Ceres, Ceres, own darling · **What happens:** seem, stray over, not traverse, wing, try, believe · **To what, where:** girl, dragons, child, lamentable cry · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (It, aid, good Ceres, Ceres), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:21:48 # text = It seemed so unaccountable, however, that the girl should have strayed over so many lands and seas (which she herself could not have traversed without the aid of her winged dragons), that the good Ceres tried to believe that it must be the child of some other parent, and not her own darling Proserpina, who had uttered this lamentable cry. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 unaccountable unaccountable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 however however ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux _ _ 13 strayed stray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 14 over over ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obj _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 22 conj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux _ _ 27 traversed traverse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 28 without without ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 aid aid NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 33 winged wing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 dragons dragon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 Ceres Ceres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 46 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 47 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 ccomp _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 53 det _ _ 52 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 56 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 59 advmod _ _ 57 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 58 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 darling darling NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 parataxis _ _ 60 Proserpina Proserpina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 64 nsubj _ _ 63 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 64 uttered utter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 59 conj _ _ 65 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 67 det _ _ 66 lamentable lamentable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 67 amod _ _ 67 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | It | | | | | however, unaccountable *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stray over** | should · perfect · passive | | the girl | | | | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **not** **traverse** | could · perfect · passive | | girl | | | | without the aid | tree rules | | 4 | **wing** | past | the aid *not said here* | dragons | | | | of girl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme of she=Trajectory | | 5 | **try** | past | the good Ceres | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **believe** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the good Ceres *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is a** | must | Ceres | the child | | | | of some other parent | tree rules | | 8 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · perfect | girl's own darling | this lamentable cry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/49/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/)