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title: "No," answered Hecate, in a cracked voice, and sighing betwixt every… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "No," answered Hecate, in a cracked voice, and sighing betwixt every word or two; "no, Mother Ceres, I have seen nothing of your daughter. Who acts: Hecate. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 14

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"No," answered Hecate, in a cracked voice, and sighing betwixt every word or two; "no, Mother Ceres, I have seen nothing of your daughter.

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**Who acts:** Hecate · **What happens:** answer, crack, sigh, see · **To what, where:** Mother Ceres, cracked voice, betwixt word, nothing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hecate), 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:pg976:22:14
# text = "No," answered Hecate, in a cracked voice, and sighing betwixt every word or two; "no, Mother Ceres, I have seen nothing of your daughter.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
15	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hecate | Mother Ceres |  | a cracked voice |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sigh** | gerund | Hecate *not said here* | every betwixt word |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Hecate | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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