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title: Then there was a clatter of silver dishes, or golden ones, which mad… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there was a clatter of silver dishes, or golden ones, which made him imagine a rich feast in a splendid banqueting hall. Who acts: clatter, golden ones, silver dishes. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 70

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Then there was a clatter of silver dishes, or golden ones, which made him imagine a rich feast in a splendid banqueting hall.

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**Who acts:** clatter, golden ones, silver dishes · **What happens:** be, make, imagine, banquet, clatter · **To what, where:** clatter, rich feast, splendid banqueting hall

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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 (clatter, golden ones, silver dishes), 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:pg976:16:70
# text = Then there was a clatter of silver dishes, or golden ones, which made him imagine a rich feast in a splendid banqueting hall.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	banqueting	banquet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a clatter of silver dishes |  |  | there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | golden ones | clatter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **imagine** | infinitive | clatter *not said here* | a rich feast |  | a splendid banqueting hall |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feast=Theme |
| 4 | **banquet** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **clatter** |  | silver dishes |  |  |  |  |  | nom clatter «event 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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