Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 33

When their hostess saw this, she laughed aloud; so did her four damsels; so did the two and twenty serving men that bore the dishes, and their two and twenty fellows that poured out the wine.

Who acts: hostess, four damsels, two serving men, two fellows · What happens: see, laugh, do, serve, bear, pour out · To what, where: this, dishes, wine

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 (hostess, four damsels, two serving men, two fellows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:1250): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hostess	nmod:poss
3	hostess	hostess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughed	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laughed	nsubj
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	8 laughed	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 did	advmod
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughed	conj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 damsels	nmod:poss
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 damsels	nummod
15	damsels	damsel	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 did	nsubj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 did	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 did	advmod
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 men	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 men	nummod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 twenty	cc
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 two	conj
23	serving	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 did	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 bore	nsubj
26	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 men	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dishes	det
28	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bore	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fellows	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fellows	cc
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 fellows	nmod:poss
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 fellows	nummod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 twenty	cc
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 two	conj
35	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 men	conj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 poured	nsubj
37	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fellows	acl:relcl
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 poured	compound:prt
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wine	det
40	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 poured	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	guzzlers's hostess	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	hostess		aloud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	hostess's four damsels			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	the two serving men and guzzlers's two fellows			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	serve	gerund				vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
6	bear	past	the two serving men and guzzlers's two fellows	the dishes		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient
7	pour out	past	guzzlers's two fellows	the wine		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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