--- title: When their hostess saw this, she laughed aloud; so did her four dams… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When their hostess saw this, she laughed aloud; so did her four damsels; so did the two and twenty serving men that bore the dishes, and their two and twenty fellows that poured out the wine. Who acts: hostess, four damsels, two serving men, two fellows. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostess, four damsels, two serving men, two fellows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:1250`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:17:33 # text = When their hostess saw this, she laughed aloud; so did her four damsels; so did the two and twenty serving men that bore the dishes, and their two and twenty fellows that poured out the wine. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 hostess hostess NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 damsels damsel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 20 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 conj _ _ 23 serving serve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dishes dish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 32 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 conj _ _ 35 fellows fellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 out out ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | guzzlers's hostess | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **laugh** | past | hostess | | | | | aloud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** | past | hostess's four damsels | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | past | the two serving men and guzzlers's two fellows | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **serve** | gerund | | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bear** | past | the two serving men and guzzlers's two fellows | the dishes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | | 7 | **pour out** | past | guzzlers's two fellows | the wine | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | 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. **Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/34/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/)