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title: But, just then, a puff of wind brought down the smoke of the kitchen… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 31

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But, just then, a puff of wind brought down the smoke of the kitchen chimney among them, and caused each man to smell the odor of the dish that he liked best; and, after scenting it, they thought everything else moonshine, and nothing real save this palace, and save the banquet that was evidently ready to be served up in it.

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**Who acts:** wind, man, clouds, nothing, banquet, kitchen chimney · **What happens:** bring down, cause, smell, like, scent, think · **To what, where:** smoke, man, odor, best, everything, palace

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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 (wind, man, clouds, nothing), 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:pg976:16:31
# text = But, just then, a puff of wind brought down the smoke of the kitchen chimney among them, and caused each man to smell the odor of the dish that he liked best; and, after scenting it, they thought everything else moonshine, and nothing real save this palace, and save the banquet that was evidently ready to be served up in it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	odor	odor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
40	scenting	scent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
45	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	44	obj	_	_
46	else	else	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	moonshine	moonshine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	52	nsubj	_	_
51	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
52	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
53	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
54	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	_
60	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	63	nsubj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
62	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	acl:relcl	_	_
64	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
65	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	aux:pass	_	_
66	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	63	xcomp	_	_
67	up	up	ADP	RP	_	66	compound:prt	_	_
68	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring down** | participle | wind *not said here* | the smoke of the kitchen chimney among clouds |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent smoke=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | past |  | each man |  |  | then |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition man=Patient |
| 3 | **smell** | to-infinitive |  | the odor of the dish |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer odor=Stimulus |
| 4 | **like** | past | man | best |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme |
| 5 | **scent** | gerund | clouds *= cloud* *not said here* | odor |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | clouds *= cloud* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Theme |
| 7 | **moonshine** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **save** | present | nothing | this palace |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 9 | **save** | infinitive | nothing *not said here* | the banquet |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme |
| 10 | **is** | past | the banquet |  |  |  |  | evidently, ready *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **serve up** | to-infinitive · passive | the banquet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in palace | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: in it=Attribute |
| 12 | **puff** |  |  | wind |  |  |  |  | nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 13 | **smoke** |  | the kitchen chimney among clouds |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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