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title: While she dwelt in the king's palace, Mother Ceres had been so conti… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While she dwelt in the king's palace, Mother Ceres had been so continually occupied with taking care of the young prince, that her heart was a little lightened of its grief for Proserpina. Who acts: queen, Mother Ceres. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds.,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 33

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While she dwelt in the king's palace, Mother Ceres had been so continually occupied with taking care of the young prince, that her heart was a little lightened of its grief for Proserpina.

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**Who acts:** queen, Mother Ceres · **What happens:** dwell, be, take, lighten · **To what, where:** palace, care, heart

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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 (queen, Mother Ceres), 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:pg976:1727`): 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:pg976:23:33
# text = While she dwelt in the king's palace, Mother Ceres had been so continually occupied with taking care of the young prince, that her heart was a little lightened of its grief for Proserpina.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	lightened	lighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | queen |  |  | the king's palace |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Mother Ceres |  |  |  |  | continually, occupied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Mother Ceres *not said here* | care |  |  |  | of the young prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of prince=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **lighten** | past · passive |  | queen's heart |  |  |  | of heart's grief for Proserpina; a little *obl:unmarked* | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:** 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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