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title: The cook's made dishes and artificial dainties were not half so deli… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The cook's made dishes and artificial dainties were not half so delicious, in the good child's opinion, as the simple fare to which Mother Ceres had accustomed her. Who acts: made dishes, Mother, good child. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, wit
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 94

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The cook's made dishes and artificial dainties were not half so delicious, in the good child's opinion, as the simple fare to which Mother Ceres had accustomed her.

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**Who acts:** made dishes, Mother, good child · **What happens:** make, not be, accustom, opine · **To what, where:** child

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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 (made dishes, Mother, good child), 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:pg976:23:94
# text = The cook's made dishes and artificial dainties were not half so delicious, in the good child's opinion, as the simple fare to which Mother Ceres had accustomed her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
28	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the cook's made dishes and artificial dainties |  |  |  |  | delicious, half *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accustom** | past · perfect | Mother | child |  |  |  | to the simple fare | tree rules |
| 4 | **opine** |  | the good child |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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