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title: The rest of the day was spent in feasting; and if these enormous eat… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The rest of the day was spent in feasting; and if these enormous eaters got up from table at sunset, it was only because they could not scrape another morsel off the poor animal's bones. Who acts: enormous eaters, rest. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 44

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The rest of the day was spent in feasting; and if these enormous eaters got up from table at sunset, it was only because they could not scrape another morsel off the poor animal's bones.

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**Who acts:** enormous eaters, rest · **What happens:** spend, get up, not be · **To what, where:** rest, feasting, table

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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 (enormous eaters, rest), 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:pg976:15:44
# text = The rest of the day was spent in feasting; and if these enormous eaters got up from table at sunset, it was only because they could not scrape another morsel off the poor animal's bones.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eaters	eater	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past · passive |  | the rest of the day |  | feasting |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **get up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | this enormous eaters |  |  | table | sunset |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from table=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **is** | could · past | rest |  |  |  |  | off the poor animal's bones; scrape *property* | tree rules |

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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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