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title: While the servants supplied the two and twenty guests with food and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While the servants supplied the two and twenty guests with food and drink, the hostess and her four maidens went from one throne to another, exhorting them to eat their fill, and to quaff wine abundantly, and thus to recompense themselves, at this one banquet, for the many days when they had gone wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 12

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While the servants supplied the two and twenty guests with food and drink, the hostess and her four maidens went from one throne to another, exhorting them to eat their fill, and to quaff wine abundantly, and thus to recompense themselves, at this one banquet, for the many days when they had gone without a dinner.

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**Who acts:** servants, four maidens · **What happens:** supply, go, exhort, eat, recompense · **To what, where:** two guests, one throne, maidens, fill, one banquet

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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 (servants, four maidens), 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:pg976:17:12
# text = While the servants supplied the two and twenty guests with food and drink, the hostess and her four maidens went from one throne to another, exhorting them to eat their fill, and to quaff wine abundantly, and thus to recompense themselves, at this one banquet, for the many days when they had gone without a dinner.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	supplied	supply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	conj	_	_
9	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	exhorting	exhort	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	fill	fill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	quaff	quaff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
39	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	recompense	recompense	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
45	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obl:unmarked	_	_
56	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	59	advmod	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
60	without	without	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | past | the servants |  | the two guests |  |  | with food and drink and the hostess | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent guest=Recipient with food=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | hostess's four maidens |  |  | one throne |  | to another | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from throne=Initial\_Location to another=Destination |
| 3 | **exhort** | gerund | hostess's four maidens *not said here* | maidens *= maiden* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | hostess's four maidens *not said here* | maidens's fill |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient |
| 5 | **recompense** | to-infinitive | the servants *not said here* | maidens *= maiden* |  | this one banquet |  | thus *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
| 6 | **go** | past · perfect | servants *= servant* |  |  |  | day | without a dinner | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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