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title: An equal number of attendants brought great flagons of wine, of vari… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: An equal number of attendants brought great flagons of wine, of various kinds, some of which sparkled as it was poured out, and went bubbling down the throat; while, of other sorts, the purple liquor was so clear that you could see the wrought figures at the bottom of the goblet. Who acts: equal num
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 11

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An equal number of attendants brought great flagons of wine, of various kinds, some of which sparkled as it was poured out, and went bubbling down the throat; while, of other sorts, the purple liquor was so clear that you could see the wrought figures at the bottom of the goblet.

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**Who acts:** equal number, other sorts, you · **What happens:** bring, sparkle, pour out, go, bubble, be · **To what, where:** great flagons, some, number, throat, wrought figures, bottom

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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 (equal number, other sorts, you), 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:pg976:17:11
# text = An equal number of attendants brought great flagons of wine, of various kinds, some of which sparkled as it was poured out, and went bubbling down the throat; while, of other sorts, the purple liquor was so clear that you could see the wrought figures at the bottom of the goblet.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flagons	flagon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nmod	_	_
19	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	down	down	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | a equal number of attendants | great flagons of wine and various kinds |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flagon=Theme |
| 2 | **sparkle** | participle · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **pour out** | past · passive |  | number |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | a equal number of attendants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bubble** | gerund | a equal number of attendants *not said here* |  |  | the throat |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down throat=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | other sorts and the purple liquor |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | could | you | the wrought figures |  | the bottom of the goblet |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |

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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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