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title: For, from the abundance of this smoke, it was reasonable to conclude… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For, from the abundance of this smoke, it was reasonable to conclude that there was a good fire in the kitchen, and that, at dinner-time, a plentiful banquet would be served up to the inhabitants of the palace, and to whatever guests might happen to drop in. Who acts: good fire, guests. A sentence o
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 19

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For, from the abundance of this smoke, it was reasonable to conclude that there was a good fire in the kitchen, and that, at dinner-time, a plentiful banquet would be served up to the inhabitants of the palace, and to whatever guests might happen to drop in.

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**Who acts:** good fire, guests · **What happens:** be, conclude, serve up, happen, drop in · **To what, where:** that, inhabitants

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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 fire, guests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:15:19
# text = For, from the abundance of this smoke, it was reasonable to conclude that there was a good fire in the kitchen, and that, at dinner-time, a plentiful banquet would be served up to the inhabitants of the palace, and to whatever guests might happen to drop in.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	expl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	conclude	conclude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	csubj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	52	obl	_	_
50	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
51	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	RP	_	54	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the abundance of this smoke; reasonable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **conclude** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | a good fire in the kitchen |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **serve up** | would · passive |  | that | the inhabitants of the palace |  | time |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to inhabitant=Recipient |
| 5 | **happen** | might | guests |  |  |  |  | to whatever | tree rules |
| 6 | **drop in** | to-infinitive | guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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