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title: But then she reflected that the sorrow of the disconsolate Ceres wou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But then she reflected that the sorrow of the disconsolate Ceres would be like a gloomy twilight round about them both, let the sun shine ever so brightly, and that therefore she might enjoy her bad spirits quite as well as if she were to stay in the cave. Who acts: Hecate, sorrow, sun, disconsolate
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 28

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But then she reflected that the sorrow of the disconsolate Ceres would be like a gloomy twilight round about them both, let the sun shine ever so brightly, and that therefore she might enjoy her bad spirits quite as well as if she were to stay in the cave.

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**Who acts:** Hecate, sorrow, sun, disconsolate · **What happens:** reflect, be, let, shine, enjoy, stay · **To what, where:** both, that, cave

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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, sorrow, sun, disconsolate), 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:pg976:22:28
# text = But then she reflected that the sorrow of the disconsolate Ceres would be like a gloomy twilight round about them both, let the sun shine ever so brightly, and that therefore she might enjoy her bad spirits quite as well as if she were to stay in the cave.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	disconsolate	disconsolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
21	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	obl	_	_
33	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	36	advmod	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	fixed	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
44	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | past | Hecate | both |  |  | then | about world; round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | would | the sorrow of the disconsolate |  |  |  |  | like a gloomy twilight | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Hecate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shine** | present | the sun |  |  |  | ever | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **enjoy** | might | Hecate | that |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stay** | past | Hecate |  |  | the cave |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |
| 7 | **sorrow** |  | the disconsolate |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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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