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title: When their hearts had grown a little more quiet, Mother Ceres looked… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When their hearts had grown a little more quiet, Mother Ceres looked anxiously at Proserpina. Who acts: hearts, Mother. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 52

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When their hearts had grown a little more quiet, Mother Ceres looked anxiously at Proserpina.

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**Who acts:** hearts, Mother · **What happens:** grow, look

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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 (hearts, Mother), 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:pg976:24:52
# text = When their hearts had grown a little more quiet, Mother Ceres looked anxiously at Proserpina.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | arms's hearts |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | Mother |  |  |  |  | at Proserpina; anxiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at proserpina=Theme |

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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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