--- title: All night long, at the door of every cottage and farm-house, Ceres k… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: All night long, at the door of every cottage and farm-house, Ceres knocked, and called up the weary laborers to inquire if they had seen her child; and they stood, gaping and half-asleep, at the threshold, and answered her pityingly, and besought her to come in and rest. Who acts: Ceres, laborers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ceres, laborers), 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:pg976:21:76 # text = All night long, at the door of every cottage and farm-house, Ceres knocked, and called up the weary laborers to inquire if they had seen her child; and they stood, gaping and half-asleep, at the threshold, and answered her pityingly, and besought her to come in and rest. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 16 Ceres Ceres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 knocked knock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 laborers laborer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 xcomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 inquire inquire VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 27 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 31 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 gaping gape VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 42 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 50 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 obj _ _ 51 pityingly pityingly ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 besought beseech VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 55 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obj _ _ 56 to to PART TO _ 57 mark _ _ 57 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 xcomp _ _ 58 in in ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 57 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knock** | past | Ceres | | | | night | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **call up** *speech: assert* | participle | | the weary laborers | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | laborers *= laborer* | child's child | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | | 5 | **stand** | past | laborers *= laborer* | | | the threshold | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at threshold=Location | | 6 | **gape** | gerund | laborers *= laborer* *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ceres *not said here* | | child | | | pityingly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | | 8 | **beseech** | past | Ceres *not said here* | child | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **come in** | to-infinitive | Ceres *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **rest** | infinitive | Ceres *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/77/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/)