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title: As long as Proserpina was above ground, there might have been hopes… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As long as Proserpina was above ground, there might have been hopes of regaining her. Who acts: Proserpina, hopes. 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 82

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As long as Proserpina was above ground, there might have been hopes of regaining her.

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**Who acts:** Proserpina, hopes · **What happens:** be, regain · **To what, where:** hopes, Proserpina

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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 (Proserpina, hopes), 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:pg976:22:82
# text = As long as Proserpina was above ground, there might have been hopes of regaining her.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	regaining	regain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | as ground | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive · perfect |  | hopes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **regain** | might | hopes | Proserpina |  | there |  | long *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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