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title: Poor Mother Ceres had now found out what had become of her daughter,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Mother Ceres had now found out what had become of her daughter, but was not a whit happier than before. 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 80

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Poor Mother Ceres had now found out what had become of her daughter, but was not a whit happier than before.

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**What happens:** find out, become, not be · **To what, where:** Poor Mother Ceres, whit

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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: 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:pg976:22:80
# text = Poor Mother Ceres had now found out what had become of her daughter, but was not a whit happier than before.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	whit	whit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
20	happier	happy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find out** | past · perfect · passive |  | Poor Mother Ceres |  |  | now |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of Ceres's daughter | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a whit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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