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title: But Mother Ceres, the moment she saw her, knew that this was an odd… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Mother Ceres, the moment she saw her, knew that this was an odd kind of a person, who put all her enjoyment in being miserable, and never would have a word to say to other people, unless they were as melancholy and wretched as she herself delighted to be. Who acts: Ceres, Mother Ceres, this, per
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 8

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But Mother Ceres, the moment she saw her, knew that this was an odd kind of a person, who put all her enjoyment in being miserable, and never would have a word to say to other people, unless they were as melancholy and wretched as she herself delighted to be.

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**Who acts:** Ceres, Mother Ceres, this, person, people, woman · **What happens:** see, know, be, put, not have, say · **To what, where:** woman, odd kind, enjoyment, word, other people · **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 (Ceres, Mother Ceres, this, person), 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:pg976:22:8
# text = But Mother Ceres, the moment she saw her, knew that this was an odd kind of a person, who put all her enjoyment in being miserable, and never would have a word to say to other people, unless they were as melancholy and wretched as she herself delighted to be.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	51	conj	_	_
53	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Ceres | woman |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **know** | past | Mother Ceres |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | a odd kind |  |  |  | of a person | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past | a person | woman's enjoyment |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent enjoyment=Goal |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **have** | would | Mother Ceres *not said here* | a word |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Mother Ceres *not said here* | a word *not said here* | other people |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient |
| 8 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | people |  |  |  |  | as melancholy | tree rules |
| 9 | **be** |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **enjoy** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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