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title: And Hecate took her at her word, and hurried back to her beloved cav… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Hecate took her at her word, and hurried back to her beloved cave, frightening a great many little children with a glimpse of her dog's face as she went. Who acts: Hecate. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 86

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And Hecate took her at her word, and hurried back to her beloved cave, frightening a great many little children with a glimpse of her dog's face as she went.

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**Who acts:** Hecate · **What happens:** take, hurry back, go, word, glimpse · **To what, where:** Ceres, word, beloved cave, face

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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 (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:pg976:22:86
# text = And Hecate took her at her word, and hurried back to her beloved cave, frightening a great many little children with a glimpse of her dog's face as she went.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **take** | past | Hecate | Ceres |  | Hecate's word |  | with a glimpse of Hecate's dog's face | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Theme at word=Asset |
| 2 | **hurry back** | past | Hecate *not said here* |  |  | Hecate's beloved cave |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination |
| 3 | **go** | past | Hecate |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | Hecate |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **glimpse** |  |  | Hecate's dog's face |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act 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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