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title: As Ceres and her dismal companion approached him, Phoebus smiled on… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As Ceres and her dismal companion approached him, Phoebus smiled on them so cheerfully that Hecate's wreath of snakes gave a spiteful hiss, and Hecate heartily wished herself back in her cave. Who acts: Ceres, Phoebus, wreath, Hecate. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pome
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 46

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As Ceres and her dismal companion approached him, Phoebus smiled on them so cheerfully that Hecate's wreath of snakes gave a spiteful hiss, and Hecate heartily wished herself back in her cave.

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**Who acts:** Ceres, Phoebus, wreath, Hecate · **What happens:** approach, smile, give, wish back · **To what, where:** man, spiteful hiss, Hecate, 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 (Ceres, Phoebus, wreath, 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:pg976:22:46
# text = As Ceres and her dismal companion approached him, Phoebus smiled on them so cheerfully that Hecate's wreath of snakes gave a spiteful hiss, and Hecate heartily wished herself back in her cave.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	Phoebus	Phoebus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	spiteful	spiteful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | Ceres and Ceres's dismal companion | man |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **smile** | past | Phoebus |  |  |  |  | on eyes *= eye*; cheerfully *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | Hecate's wreath of snakes | a spiteful hiss |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hiss=Theme |
| 4 | **wish back** | past | Hecate | Hecate |  | Ceres's cave |  | heartily *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme |

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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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