Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 10

But the beautiful woman now clapped her hands; and immediately there entered a train of two and twenty serving men, bringing dishes of the richest food, all hot from the kitchen fire, and sending up such a steam that it hung like a cloud below the crystal dome of the saloon.

Who acts: beautiful woman, steam · What happens: clap, enter, serve, bring, send up, hang · To what, where: hands, train, dishes, steam

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful woman, steam), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 clapped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clapped	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 clapped	advmod
6	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clapped	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 entered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 entered	cc
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 there	advmod
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 entered	advmod
13	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clapped	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 train	det
15	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 entered	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 men	nummod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 twenty	cc
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 two	conj
20	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 men	amod
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 train	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bringing	punct
23	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 entered	advcl
24	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bringing	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 food	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 food	det
27	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 food	amod
28	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dishes	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hot	punct
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 hot	det
31	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 food	amod
32	from	from	ADP	_	35 fire	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 fire	det
34	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fire	compound
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hot	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sending	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sending	cc
38	sending	send	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 bringing	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 sending	compound:prt
40	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 steam	det:predet
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 steam	det
42	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sending	obj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 hung	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hung	nsubj
45	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sending	advcl
46	like	like	ADP	_	48 cloud	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 cloud	det
48	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hung	obl
49	below	below	ADP	_	52 dome	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 dome	det
51	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 dome	amod
52	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 cloud	nmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 saloon	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 saloon	det
55	saloon	saloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 dome	nmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	past	the beautiful woman	woman's hands		now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	enter	past	the beautiful woman not said here	a train of two serving men	there			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme train=Destination
3	serve	gerund						vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
4	bring	gerund	the beautiful woman not said here	dishes of the richest food				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
5	send up	gerund	the beautiful woman not said here	such steam				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steam=Theme
6	hang	past	steam				like a cloud below the crystal dome of the saloon	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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