Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 19

For, from the abundance of this smoke, it was reasonable to conclude that there was a good fire in the kitchen, and that, at dinner-time, a plentiful banquet would be served up to the inhabitants of the palace, and to whatever guests might happen to drop in.

Who acts: good fire, guests · What happens: be, conclude, serve up, happen, drop in · To what, where: that, inhabitants

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good fire, guests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	5 abundance	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 abundance	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 abundance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 abundance	det
5	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reasonable	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 smoke	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 smoke	det
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 abundance	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 abundance	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reasonable	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 reasonable	cop
12	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 conclude	mark
14	conclude	conclude	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 reasonable	csubj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 conclude	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fire	det
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fire	amod
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 kitchen	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kitchen	det
23	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fire	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 served	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 served	cc
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 served	nsubj:pass
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 served	punct
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 time	case
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 dinner	punct
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 served	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 time	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 banquet	det
34	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 banquet	amod
35	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 served	nsubj:pass
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 served	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 served	aux:pass
38	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 reasonable	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 served	compound:prt
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 inhabitants	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 inhabitants	det
42	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 served	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 palace	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 palace	det
45	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 inhabitants	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 happen	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 happen	cc
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 whatever	case
49	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	52 happen	obl
50	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 happen	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 happen	aux
52	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 reasonable	conj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 drop	mark
54	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 happen	xcomp
55	in	in	ADP	_	54 drop	compound:prt
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 reasonable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						for the abundance of this smoke; reasonable property	tree rules
2	conclude	to-infinitive							vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	past	a good fire in the kitchen			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	serve up	would · passive		that	the inhabitants of the palace		time		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to inhabitant=Recipient
5	happen	might	guests					to whatever	tree rules
6	drop in	to-infinitive	guests not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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.

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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