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title: When he was gone, Proserpina could not help coming close to the tabl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was gone, Proserpina could not help coming close to the table, and looking at this poor specimen of dried fruit with a great deal of eagerness; for, to say the truth, on seeing something that suited her taste, she felt all the six months' appetite taking possession of her at once. Who acts: 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 3

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When he was gone, Proserpina could not help coming close to the table, and looking at this poor specimen of dried fruit with a great deal of eagerness; for, to say the truth, on seeing something that suited her taste, she felt all the six months' appetite taking possession of her at once.

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**Who acts:** servant, Proserpina · **What happens:** be, not help, come, look, dry, say · **To what, where:** truth, something, taste, appetite, possession, eagerness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, Proserpina), 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:pg976:24:3
# text = When he was gone, Proserpina could not help coming close to the table, and looking at this poor specimen of dried fruit with a great deal of eagerness; for, to say the truth, on seeing something that suited her taste, she felt all the six months' appetite taking possession of her at once.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
41	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	40	obj	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	suited	suit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
49	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	54	det:predet	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	'	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
55	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
56	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nmod	_	_
59	at	at	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	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 | servant |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **help** | could | Proserpina |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | gerund | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a great deal of eagerness; at this poor specimen of dried fruit | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at specimen=Theme |
| 5 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Proserpina *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |
| 7 | **see** | gerund | Proserpina *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 8 | **suit** | past |  | Proserpina's taste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **feel** | past | Proserpina | the six months's appetite |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Theme |
| 10 | **take** | gerund | Proserpina *not said here* | possession of Proserpina |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent possession=Theme at once=Asset |
| 11 | **deal** |  |  | eagerness |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 12 | **taste** |  | Proserpina |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 13 | **possess** |  |  | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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