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title: In this new part, Ulysses saw his two and twenty friends represented… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In this new part, Ulysses saw his two and twenty friends represented as sitting on cushions and canopied thrones, greedily devouring dainties, and quaffing deep draughts of wine. Who acts: Ulysses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 29

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In this new part, Ulysses saw his two and twenty friends represented as sitting on cushions and canopied thrones, greedily devouring dainties, and quaffing deep draughts of wine.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses · **What happens:** see, represent, sit, canopy, devour, quaff · **To what, where:** two friends, new part, cushions, deep draughts

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses), 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:pg976:18:29
# text = In this new part, Ulysses saw his two and twenty friends represented as sitting on cushions and canopied thrones, greedily devouring dainties, and quaffing deep draughts of wine.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	canopied	canopy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	thrones	throne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	greedily	greedily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	quaffing	quaff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
28	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	draughts	draught	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Ulysses | Ulysses's two friends |  | this new part |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer friend=Stimulus |
| 2 | **represent** | participle |  | Ulysses's two friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund |  |  |  | cushions and canopied thrones and greedily devouring dainties |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cushion=Location |
| 4 | **canopy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **devour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **quaff** | gerund | Ulysses *not said here* | deep draughts of wine |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=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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