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title: But as for Ceres, she was too earnest in her grief either to know or… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But as for Ceres, she was too earnest in her grief either to know or care whether Phoebus smiled or frowned. Who acts: Ceres, Phoebus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 47

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But as for Ceres, she was too earnest in her grief either to know or care whether Phoebus smiled or frowned.

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**Who acts:** Ceres, Phoebus · **What happens:** be, know, care, smile, frown · **To what, where:** grief

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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), 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:pg976:22:47
# text = But as for Ceres, she was too earnest in her grief either to know or care whether Phoebus smiled or frowned.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	Phoebus	Phoebus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	frowned	frown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ceres |  |  | Ceres's grief |  | as Ceres; earn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **care** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **smile** | past | Phoebus |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **frown** | participle | Phoebus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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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