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title: So Mother Ceres set her torch in a corner (where it kept burning all… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Mother Ceres set her torch in a corner (where it kept burning all the while), and took up her abode in the palace of King Cereus, as nurse to the little Prince Demophoon. Who acts: Mother, torch. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dep
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 1

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So Mother Ceres set her torch in a corner (where it kept burning all the while), and took up her abode in the palace of King Cereus, as nurse to the little Prince Demophoon.

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**Who acts:** Mother, torch · **What happens:** set, keep, burn, take up · **To what, where:** torch, corner, abode, little Demophoon, palace

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, torch), 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:pg976:23:1
# text = So Mother Ceres set her torch in a corner (where it kept burning all the while), and took up her abode in the palace of King Cereus, as nurse to the little Prince Demophoon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Cereus	Cereus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Demophoon	Demophoon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | Mother | Mother's torch |  | a corner |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent torch=Theme in corner=Destination |
| 2 | **keep** | past | torch |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | gerund | torch *not said here* |  |  |  | while |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take up** | past | Mother *not said here* | Mother's abode | the little Demophoon  Prince | the palace of King |  | as nurse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent abode=Theme to demophoon=Destination |

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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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