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title: She roamed about in so wild a way, and with her hair so disheveled,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She roamed about in so wild a way, and with her hair so disheveled, that people took her for some distracted creature, and never dreamed that this was Mother Ceres, who had the oversight of every seed which the husbandman planted. Who acts: Ceres, people, Mother, seed. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tale
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 91

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She roamed about in so wild a way, and with her hair so disheveled, that people took her for some distracted creature, and never dreamed that this was Mother Ceres, who had the oversight of every seed which the husbandman planted.

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**Who acts:** Ceres, people, Mother, seed · **What happens:** roam, dishevel, take, distract, not dream, be · **To what, where:** wild way, Ceres, Mother, oversight, husbandman · **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, people, Mother, seed), 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:pg976:22:91
# text = She roamed about in so wild a way, and with her hair so disheveled, that people took her for some distracted creature, and never dreamed that this was Mother Ceres, who had the oversight of every seed which the husbandman planted.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	with	with	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	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	disheveled	dishevel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	distracted	distract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	oversight	oversight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | past | Ceres |  |  | a wild way |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dishevel** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with Ceres's hair | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hair=Instrument |
| 3 | **take** | past | people | Ceres |  |  |  | for some distracted creature | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for creature=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **distract** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **dream** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | this Mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | this Mother | the oversight of every seed and the husbandman |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oversight=Patient |
| 8 | **husbandman** |  | every seed and the husbandman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **plant** | participle |  | the husbandman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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