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title: Ceres answered, that Hecate was welcome to go back thither herself,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ceres answered, that Hecate was welcome to go back thither herself, but that, for her part, she would wander about the earth in quest of the entrance to King Pluto's dominions. Who acts: Ceres, Hecate, that, entrance. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., p
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 85

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Ceres answered, that Hecate was welcome to go back thither herself, but that, for her part, she would wander about the earth in quest of the entrance to King Pluto's dominions.

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**Who acts:** Ceres, Hecate, that, entrance · **What happens:** answer, be, go back, wander, quest · **To what, where:** Hecate · **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, Hecate, that, entrance), 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:pg976:22:85
# text = Ceres answered, that Hecate was welcome to go back thither herself, but that, for her part, she would wander about the earth in quest of the entrance to King Pluto's dominions.
1	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:desc	_	_
34	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Ceres |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hecate |  |  |  |  | welcome *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go back** | to-infinitive | Hecate *not said here* | Hecate |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wander** | would | that |  |  |  |  | about the earth in quest of the entrance to Pluto  King's dominions | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about earth=Trajectory |
| 5 | **quest** |  | the entrance to Pluto  King's dominions |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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