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title: The dismal Hecate, who loved to take the darkest view of things, tol… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The dismal Hecate, who loved to take the darkest view of things, told Ceres that she had better come with her to the cavern, and spend the rest of her life in being miserable. Who acts: dismal Hecate, Hecate. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 84

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The dismal Hecate, who loved to take the darkest view of things, told Ceres that she had better come with her to the cavern, and spend the rest of her life in being miserable.

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**Who acts:** dismal Hecate, Hecate · **What happens:** love, take, tell, have, come, spend · **To what, where:** darkest view, Ceres, cavern, rest, things · **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 (dismal Hecate, Hecate), 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:pg976:22:84
# text = The dismal Hecate, who loved to take the darkest view of things, told Ceres that she had better come with her to the cavern, and spend the rest of her life in being miserable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	darkest	dark	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Ceres	cere	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	iobj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
37	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the dismal Hecate |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the dismal Hecate *not said here* | the darkest view of things |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the dismal Hecate |  | Ceres |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent cere=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | Hecate |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive | Hecate *not said here* |  |  | the cavern |  | with Hecate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cavern=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **spend** | infinitive | the dismal Hecate *not said here* | the rest of Hecate's life |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |
| 7 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **view** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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