--- title: And thus Mother Ceres went wandering about for nine long days and ni… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And thus Mother Ceres went wandering about for nine long days and nights, finding no trace of Proserpina, unless it were now and then a withered flower; and these she picked up and put in her bosom, because she fancied that they might have fallen from her poor child's hand. Who acts: Mother, trace, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/1/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/) / 1 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 1 And thus Mother Ceres went wandering about for nine long days and nights, finding no trace of Proserpina, unless it were now and then a withered flower; and these she picked up and put in her bosom, because she fancied that they might have fallen from her poor child's hand. **Who acts:** Mother, trace, they · **What happens:** go, wonder, find, wither, be, pick up · **To what, where:** these, trace, withered flower, bosom, hand This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, trace, they), 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:pg976:22:1 # text = And thus Mother Ceres went wandering about for nine long days and nights, finding no trace of Proserpina, unless it were now and then a withered flower; and these she picked up and put in her bosom, because she fancied that they might have fallen from her poor child's hand. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 Mother Mother PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Ceres Ceres PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 wandering wonder VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 nights night NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 trace trace NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Proserpina Proserpina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 withered wither VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 amod _ _ 29 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 because because SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 fancied fancy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 45 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 47 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 48 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 aux _ _ 49 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 advcl _ _ 50 from from ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 51 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 52 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 54 's 's PART POS _ 53 case _ _ 55 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Mother | these | | | | thus *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Mother *not said here* | | | | day | about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **find** | gerund | Mother *not said here* | no trace of Proserpina | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic | | 4 | **wither** | participle | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | trace | a withered flower | | | now; then | | tree rules | | 6 | **pick up** | past | Mother | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **put** | participle | Mother *not said here* | | | Mother's bosom | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bosom=Destination | | 8 | **fancy** | past | Mother | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **fall** | might · perfect | they | | | Mother's poor child's hand | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location | | 10 | **bosom** | | Mother | | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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: [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/96/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/2/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/)