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title: "O, where is my dear child?" cried Ceres, clasping her hands, and fl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "O, where is my dear child?" cried Ceres, clasping her hands, and flinging herself at his feet. Who acts: dear child. 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 57

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"O, where is my dear child?" cried Ceres, clasping her hands, and flinging herself at his feet.

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**Who acts:** dear child · **What happens:** be, cry, clasp, fling · **To what, where:** dear child, Ceres, hands, Proserpina, feet · **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 (dear child), 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:pg976:22:57
# text = "O, where is my dear child?" cried Ceres, clasping her hands, and flinging herself at his feet.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	clasping	clasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
20	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | my dear child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | my dear child | Ceres |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceres=Topic |
| 3 | **clasp** | gerund | my dear child *not said here* | Proserpina's hands |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 4 | **fling** | gerund | my dear child *not said here* | Proserpina |  | child's feet |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at foot=Destination |

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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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