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title: Each of the strangers was invited to sit down; and there they were,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of the strangers was invited to sit down; and there they were, two and twenty storm-beaten mariners, in worn and tattered garb, sitting on two and twenty cushioned and canopied thrones, so rich and gorgeous that the proudest monarch had nothing more splendid in his stateliest hall. Who acts: Ea
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 93

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Each of the strangers was invited to sit down; and there they were, two and twenty storm-beaten mariners, in worn and tattered garb, sitting on two and twenty cushioned and canopied thrones, so rich and gorgeous that the proudest monarch had nothing more splendid in his stateliest hall.

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**Who acts:** Each, strangers, worn tattered garb, proudest monarch · **What happens:** invite, sit down, be, beat, tatter, sit · **To what, where:** Each, two, nothing

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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 (Each, strangers, worn tattered garb, proudest monarch), 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:pg976:16:93
# text = Each of the strangers was invited to sit down; and there they were, two and twenty storm-beaten mariners, in worn and tattered garb, sitting on two and twenty cushioned and canopied thrones, so rich and gorgeous that the proudest monarch had nothing more splendid in his stateliest hall.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	invited	invite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	tattered	tatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	garb	garb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
35	cushioned	cushion	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	canopied	canopy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
38	thrones	throne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	proudest	proud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	47	amod	_	_
47	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	48	obj	_	_
50	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
51	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	stateliest	stately	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	55	amod	_	_
55	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | past · passive |  | Each |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Each *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | strangers *= stranger* | two and twenty beaten mariners and worn tattered garb |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **sit** | gerund | worn tattered garb *not said here* |  |  | two and twenty cushioned thrones |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on two=Location |
| 7 | **cushion** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **canopy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **have** | past | the proudest monarch | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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