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title: In the woods and by the streams, she met creatures of another nature… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the woods and by the streams, she met creatures of another nature, who used, in those old times, to haunt the pleasant and solitary places, and were very sociable with persons who understood their language and customs, as Mother Ceres did. Who acts: child, nature, persons, Mother Ceres. A sentenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 83

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In the woods and by the streams, she met creatures of another nature, who used, in those old times, to haunt the pleasant and solitary places, and were very sociable with persons who understood their language and customs, as Mother Ceres did.

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**Who acts:** child, nature, persons, Mother Ceres · **What happens:** meet, use, haunt, be, understand, do · **To what, where:** creatures, woods, pleasant places, language

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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 (child, nature, persons, Mother Ceres), 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:pg976:21:83
# text = In the woods and by the streams, she met creatures of another nature, who used, in those old times, to haunt the pleasant and solitary places, and were very sociable with persons who understood their language and customs, as Mother Ceres did.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	haunt	haunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	sociable	sociable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | child | creatures of another nature |  | the woods and the streams |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **use** | past | another nature |  |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **haunt** | to-infinitive | another nature *not said here* | the pleasant places |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with persons; sociable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **understand** | past | persons | persons's language and customs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | past | Mother Ceres |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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