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title: At this kind invitation, the hungry mariners were quite overjoyed; a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At this kind invitation, the hungry mariners were quite overjoyed; and one of them, taking upon himself to be spokesman, assured their hospitable hostess that any hour of the day was dinner time with them, whenever they could get flesh to put in the pot, and fire to boil it with. Who acts: one, that
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 89

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At this kind invitation, the hungry mariners were quite overjoyed; and one of them, taking upon himself to be spokesman, assured their hospitable hostess that any hour of the day was dinner time with them, whenever they could get flesh to put in the pot, and fire to boil it with.

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**Who acts:** one, that, mariners, flesh · **What happens:** overjoy, take, be, assure, get, put · **To what, where:** hungry mariners, kind invitation, spokesman, hospitable hostess, dinner time, flesh

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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 (one, that, mariners, flesh), 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:pg976:16:89
# text = At this kind invitation, the hungry mariners were quite overjoyed; and one of them, taking upon himself to be spokesman, assured their hospitable hostess that any hour of the day was dinner time with them, whenever they could get flesh to put in the pot, and fire to boil it with.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	spokesman	spokesman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
30	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	parataxis	_	_
45	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | the hungry mariners |  | this kind invitation |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | one of mariners |  |  |  |  | upon flesh | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | one of mariners *not said here* | spokesman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **assure** | past |  | mariners's hospitable hostess |  |  |  | fire *obl* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hostess=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that | dinner time |  |  |  | with mariners *= mariner* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | could | mariners *= mariner* | flesh |  |  |  | whenever *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **put** | to-infinitive | flesh *not said here* |  |  | the pot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in pot=Destination |
| 8 | **boil** | to-infinitive |  | hostess |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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