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title: But the beautiful woman now clapped her hands; and immediately there… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the beautiful woman now clapped her hands; and immediately there entered a train of two and twenty serving men, bringing dishes of the richest food, all hot from the kitchen fire, and sending up such a steam that it hung like a cloud below the crystal dome of the saloon. Who acts: beautiful woma
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 10

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But the beautiful woman now clapped her hands; and immediately there entered a train of two and twenty serving men, bringing dishes of the richest food, all hot from the kitchen fire, and sending up such a steam that it hung like a cloud below the crystal dome of the saloon.

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**Who acts:** beautiful woman, steam · **What happens:** clap, enter, serve, bring, send up, hang · **To what, where:** hands, train, dishes, steam

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful woman, steam), 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:pg976:17:10
# text = But the beautiful woman now clapped her hands; and immediately there entered a train of two and twenty serving men, bringing dishes of the richest food, all hot from the kitchen fire, and sending up such a steam that it hung like a cloud below the crystal dome of the saloon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
20	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
24	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	42	det:predet	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
46	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	below	below	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	dome	dome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	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 | **clap** | past | the beautiful woman | woman's hands |  |  | now |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | past | the beautiful woman *not said here* | a train of two serving men |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme train=Destination |
| 3 | **serve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | gerund | the beautiful woman *not said here* | dishes of the richest food |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dish=Theme |
| 5 | **send up** | gerund | the beautiful woman *not said here* | such steam |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steam=Theme |
| 6 | **hang** | past | steam |  |  |  |  | like a cloud below the crystal dome of the saloon | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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