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title: There was a good dinner on the spit; and no doubt there will be as g… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a good dinner on the spit; and no doubt there will be as good a one to-day." Who acts: good dinner, doubt. 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 52

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There was a good dinner on the spit; and no doubt there will be as good a one to-day."

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**Who acts:** good dinner, doubt · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** spit

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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 dinner, doubt), 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:pg976:15:52
# text = There was a good dinner on the spit; and no doubt there will be as good a one to-day."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a good dinner |  |  | the spit; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on spit=Location |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | no doubt |  |  |  |  | good *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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