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title: Ceres was resolved to leave no spot without a search; so she peeped… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ceres was resolved to leave no spot without a search; so she peeped into the entrance of the cave, and lighted it up a little more, by holding her own torch before her. Who acts: Ceres. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 5

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Ceres was resolved to leave no spot without a search; so she peeped into the entrance of the cave, and lighted it up a little more, by holding her own torch before her.

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**Who acts:** Ceres · **What happens:** resolve, leave, peep, light up, hold · **To what, where:** Ceres, spot, own torch

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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), 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:pg976:22:5
# text = Ceres was resolved to leave no spot without a search; so she peeped into the entrance of the cave, and lighted it up a little more, by holding her own torch before her.
1	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past · passive |  | Ceres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | no spot |  |  |  | without a search | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |
| 3 | **peep** | past | Ceres |  |  |  |  | into the entrance of the cave | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into entrance=Theme |
| 4 | **light up** | participle | Ceres *not said here* | spot |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund | Ceres *not said here* | Ceres's own torch |  |  | before Ceres |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme before she=Location |

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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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