Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 42

A dish of venison, however, was no unacceptable meal to them, especially after feeding so long on oysters and clams.

Who acts: dish, unacceptable meal · What happens: be, feed · To what, where: unacceptable meal, meals

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 (dish, unacceptable meal), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dish	det
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meal	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 venison	case
4	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dish	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dish	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	11 meal	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 meal	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 meal	det
10	unacceptable	unacceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meal	amod
11	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meal	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feeding	punct
15	especially	especially	ADV	_	17 feeding	advmod
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 feeding	mark
17	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 meal	acl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 feeding	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 oysters	case
21	oysters	oyster	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feeding	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clams	cc
23	clams	clam	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 oysters	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 meal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a dish of venison	no unacceptable meal	meals = meal			however property	tree rules
2	feed	gerund	no unacceptable meal not said here					on oysters and clams; especially, long property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on oyster=Patient

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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