Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 74

As King Agenor said this, his eyes flashed fire (for he was a very passionate king), and he looked so terribly angry that the poor boys did not even venture to ask for their suppers, but slunk away out of the palace, and only paused on the steps a moment to consult whither they should go first.

Who acts: King, eyes, poor boys · What happens: say, flash, be, look, not venture, ask · To what, where: this, fire, palace · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, eyes, poor boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
3	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 King	flat
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flashed	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 said	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flashed	nsubj
9	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flashed	obj
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 king	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	18 king	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 king	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 king	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 king	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 passionate	advmod
17	passionate	passionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 king	amod
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fire	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 king	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looked	nsubj
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flashed	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 angry	advmod
25	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	26 angry	advmod
26	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looked	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 venture	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 boys	det
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 boys	amod
30	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 venture	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 venture	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 venture	advmod
33	even	even	ADV	_	34 venture	advmod
34	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 angry	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 ask	mark
36	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 venture	xcomp
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 suppers	case
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 suppers	nmod:poss
39	suppers	supper	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 ask	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 slunk	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 slunk	cc
42	slunk	slink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flashed	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 slunk	advmod
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 palace	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 palace	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 palace	det
47	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 slunk	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 paused	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 paused	cc
50	only	only	ADV	_	51 paused	advmod
51	paused	pause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 slunk	conj
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 steps	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 steps	det
54	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 paused	obl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 moment	det
56	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 steps	conj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 consult	mark
58	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 moment	acl
59	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	62 go	advmod
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 go	nsubj
61	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 go	aux
62	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 consult	ccomp
63	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	62 go	advmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 flashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic
2	flash	past	king's eyes	fire			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
3	is	past	king			for a passionate king	tree rules
4	look	past	king			angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	not venture	past · do-support	the poor boys				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the poor boys not said here			for boys's suppers	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	slink away	past	king's eyes not said here		the palace	away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out palace=Trajectory
8	pause	participle	king's eyes not said here			on the steps and a moment	vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location
9	consult	to-infinitive	king's eyes not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	go	should	eyes = eye			first, whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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