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title: A dish of venison, however, was no unacceptable meal to them, especi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A dish of venison, however, was no unacceptable meal to them, especially after feeding so long on oysters and clams. Who acts: dish, unacceptable meal. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 42

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A dish of venison, however, was no unacceptable meal to them, especially after feeding so long on oysters and clams.

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**Who acts:** dish, unacceptable meal · **What happens:** be, feed · **To what, where:** unacceptable meal, meals

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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 (dish, unacceptable meal), 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:pg976:15:42
# text = A dish of venison, however, was no unacceptable meal to them, especially after feeding so long on oysters and clams.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	venison	venison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	unacceptable	unacceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	feeding	feed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	oysters	oyster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	clams	clam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | a dish of venison | no unacceptable meal | meals *= meal* |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | gerund | no unacceptable meal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on oysters and clams; especially, long *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on oyster=Patient |

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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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