Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 52

There was a good dinner on the spit; and no doubt there will be as good a one to-day."

Who acts: good dinner, doubt · What happens: be · To what, where: spit

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 dinner, doubt), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dinner	det
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dinner	amod
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 spit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spit	det
8	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 good	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 doubt	det
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 good	nsubj
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 be	expl
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 be	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 good	cop
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 good	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 good	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a good dinner			the spit; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spit=Location
2	is	infinitive	no doubt					good property	tree rules

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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