Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 12

While the servants supplied the two and twenty guests with food and drink, the hostess and her four maidens went from one throne to another, exhorting them to eat their fill, and to quaff wine abundantly, and thus to recompense themselves, at this one banquet, for the many days when they had gone without a dinner.

Who acts: servants, four maidens · What happens: supply, go, exhort, eat, recompense · To what, where: two guests, one throne, maidens, fill, one banquet

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 (servants, four maidens), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 supplied	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servants	det
3	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 supplied	nsubj
4	supplied	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guests	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 guests	nummod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 twenty	cc
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 two	conj
9	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 supplied	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 guests	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drink	cc
13	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hostess	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hostess	det
16	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 went	cc
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 maidens	nmod:poss
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 maidens	nummod
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 supplied	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 throne	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 throne	nummod
24	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 another	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 went	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 exhorting	punct
28	exhorting	exhort	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 went	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 exhorting	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 eat	mark
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 exhorting	advcl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fill	nmod:poss
33	fill	fill	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eat	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wine	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wine	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	38 wine	mark
37	quaff	quaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wine	compound
38	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 supplied	conj
39	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	_	38 wine	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 recompense	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 recompense	cc
42	thus	thus	ADV	_	44 recompense	advmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 recompense	mark
44	recompense	recompense	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 supplied	conj
45	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	44 recompense	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 banquet	punct
47	at	at	ADP	_	50 banquet	case
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 banquet	det
49	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 banquet	nummod
50	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 recompense	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 days	punct
52	for	for	ADP	_	55 days	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 days	det
54	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 days	amod
55	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 gone	obl:unmarked
56	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	59 gone	advmod
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 gone	nsubj
58	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 gone	aux
59	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 recompense	advcl
60	without	without	ADP	_	62 dinner	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 dinner	det
62	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 gone	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 supplied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	supply	past	the servants		the two guests			with food and drink and the hostess	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient with food=Theme
2	go	past	hostess's four maidens			one throne		to another	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from throne=Initial_Location to another=Destination
3	exhort	gerund	hostess's four maidens not said here	maidens = maiden					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
4	eat	to-infinitive	hostess's four maidens not said here	maidens's fill					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient
5	recompense	to-infinitive	the servants not said here	maidens = maiden		this one banquet		thus property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient
6	go	past · perfect	servants = servant				day	without a dinner	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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