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title: The children, too, appeared to have a sympathy with her grief, and w… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The children, too, appeared to have a sympathy with her grief, and would cluster themselves in a little group about her knees, and look up wistfully in her face; and Ceres, after giving them a kiss all round, would lead them to their homes, and advise their mothers never to let them stray out of sig
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 95

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The children, too, appeared to have a sympathy with her grief, and would cluster themselves in a little group about her knees, and look up wistfully in her face; and Ceres, after giving them a kiss all round, would lead them to their homes, and advise their mothers never to let them stray out of sight.

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**Who acts:** children, Ceres, farmers · **What happens:** appear, have, cluster, look up, give, lead · **To what, where:** sympathy, farmers, little group, kiss, homes, mothers

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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 (children, Ceres, farmers), 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:pg976:22:95
# text = The children, too, appeared to have a sympathy with her grief, and would cluster themselves in a little group about her knees, and look up wistfully in her face; and Ceres, after giving them a kiss all round, would lead them to their homes, and advise their mothers never to let them stray out of sight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
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	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cluster	cluster	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	wistfully	wistfully	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
36	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
38	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	all	all	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	round	round	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
46	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	advise	advise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	47	parataxis	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
57	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	54	parataxis	_	_
60	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	stray	stray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
62	out	out	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the children |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | a sympathy |  |  |  | with Ceres's grief | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Patient |
| 3 | **cluster** | would | the children *not said here* | farmers *= farmer* |  | a little group about Ceres's knees |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **look up** | infinitive | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in Ceres's face; wistfully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | gerund | Ceres *not said here* | a kiss | farmers *= farmer* |  |  | round *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient kiss=Theme |
| 6 | **lead** | would | Ceres | farmers *= farmer* |  | farmers's homes |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to home=Destination |
| 7 | **advise** *speech: other* | infinitive |  |  | farmers's mothers |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient |
| 8 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive |  | farmers *= farmer* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **stray** | infinitive | farmers *= farmer* *not said here* |  |  | sight |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sight=Trajectory |

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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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