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title: But Mother Ceres, though naturally of an affectionate disposition, w… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Mother Ceres, though naturally of an affectionate disposition, was now inexorable. Who acts: Mother Ceres. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 44

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But Mother Ceres, though naturally of an affectionate disposition, was now inexorable.

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**Who acts:** Mother Ceres · **What happens:** be

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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 Ceres), 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:pg976:23:44
# text = But Mother Ceres, though naturally of an affectionate disposition, was now inexorable.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	inexorable	inexorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mother Ceres |  |  |  | now | inexorable *property* | tree rules |

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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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