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title: Nowadays, however, she gave herself no trouble about seed time nor h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nowadays, however, she gave herself no trouble about seed time nor harvest, but left the farmers to take care of their own affairs, and the crops to fade or flourish, as the case might be. Who acts: Ceres, farmers, case. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 92

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Nowadays, however, she gave herself no trouble about seed time nor harvest, but left the farmers to take care of their own affairs, and the crops to fade or flourish, as the case might be.

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**Who acts:** Ceres, farmers, case · **What happens:** give, leave, take, fade, flourish, be · **To what, where:** trouble, Ceres, farmers, care

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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, farmers, case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:1682`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:22:92
# text = Nowadays, however, she gave herself no trouble about seed time nor harvest, but left the farmers to take care of their own affairs, and the crops to fade or flourish, as the case might be.
1	Nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	iobj	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
14	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	fade	fade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	orphan	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	flourish	flourish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Ceres | no trouble | Ceres |  | about seed time nor harvest | however, nowadays *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient trouble=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Ceres *not said here* | the farmers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | the farmers *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of farmers's own affairs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of affair=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fade** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **flourish** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | might | the case |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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