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title: Then they quickened their pace, and capered for joy at the thought o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they quickened their pace, and capered for joy at the thought of the savory banquet at which they hoped to be guests. Who acts: fellows. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 22

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Then they quickened their pace, and capered for joy at the thought of the savory banquet at which they hoped to be guests.

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**Who acts:** fellows · **What happens:** quicken, caper, hope, be, think · **To what, where:** pace, thought, savory banquet, guests

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellows), 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:pg976:16:22
# text = Then they quickened their pace, and capered for joy at the thought of the savory banquet at which they hoped to be guests.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	quickened	quicken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	capered	caper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	savory	savory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quicken** | past | fellows *= fellow* | fellows's pace |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pace=Patient |
| 2 | **caper** | participle | fellows *= fellow* *not said here* |  |  | the thought of the savory banquet |  | for joy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at thought=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hope** | past | fellows *= fellow* |  |  | the savory banquet |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | fellows *= fellow* *not said here* | guests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** |  |  | the savory banquet |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=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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