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title: Unfortunately, however, this was during the time when Ceres had forb… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Unfortunately, however, this was during the time when Ceres had forbidden any fruits or vegetables to grow; and, after seeking all over the earth, King Pluto's servant found only a single pomegranate, and that so dried up as not to be worth eating. Who acts: this, Ceres, servant. A sentence of «Tang
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 96

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Unfortunately, however, this was during the time when Ceres had forbidden any fruits or vegetables to grow; and, after seeking all over the earth, King Pluto's servant found only a single pomegranate, and that so dried up as not to be worth eating.

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**Who acts:** this, Ceres, servant · **What happens:** be, forbid, grow, seek, find, dry up · **To what, where:** fruits, earth, single pomegranate, that

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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 (this, Ceres, servant), 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:pg976:23:96
# text = Unfortunately, however, this was during the time when Ceres had forbidden any fruits or vegetables to grow; and, after seeking all over the earth, King Pluto's servant found only a single pomegranate, and that so dried up as not to be worth eating.
1	Unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	during	during	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	_
31	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
33	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	cop	_	_
49	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	advcl	_	_
50	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  | during the time | however, unfortunately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **forbid** | past · perfect | Ceres | any fruits or vegetables |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fruit=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Ceres *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seek** | gerund | King's servant *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent over earth=Location |
| 5 | **find** | past | King's servant | a single pomegranate |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomegranate=Topic |
| 6 | **dry up** | participle · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 7 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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