Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 93

Year after year, King Agenor sat in the solitude of his beautiful palace, listening in vain for their returning footsteps, hoping to hear the familiar voice of the queen, and the cheerful talk of his sons and their playfellow Thasus, entering the door together, and the sweet, childish accents of little Europa in the midst of them.

Who acts: King, sons · What happens: sit, listen, return, hope, hear, enter · To what, where: solitude, vain, familiar voice, door, midst, little Europa

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, sons), 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	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl:unmarked
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 year	case
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Year	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Year	punct
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
6	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 King	flat
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 solitude	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 solitude	det
10	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 palace	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 palace	nmod:poss
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 palace	amod
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 solitude	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 listening	punct
16	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 vain	case
18	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 listening	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 footsteps	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 footsteps	nmod:poss
21	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 footsteps	amod
22	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 listening	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hoping	punct
24	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 listening	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 hear	mark
26	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hoping	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 voice	det
28	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 voice	amod
29	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hear	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 queen	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 queen	det
32	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 voice	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 talk	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 talk	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 talk	det
36	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 talk	amod
37	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 sons	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sons	nmod:poss
40	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 talk	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 playfellow	cc
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 playfellow	nmod:poss
43	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sons	conj
44	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 playfellow	appos
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 entering	punct
46	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 sons	conj
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 door	det
48	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 entering	obj
49	together	together	ADV	_	46 entering	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 accents	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 accents	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 accents	det
53	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 accents	amod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sweet	punct
55	childish	childish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 accents	amod
56	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 talk	conj
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 Europa	case
58	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Europa	amod
59	Europa	Europa	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 accents	nmod
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 midst	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 midst	det
62	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 talk	nmod
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 them	case
64	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 midst	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	King		the solitude of king's beautiful palace	year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in solitude=Location
2	listen	gerund	King not said here		vain		for brothers's returning footsteps	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for footstep=Theme
3	return	gerund						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hope	gerund	King not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	the familiar voice of the queen				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
6	enter	gerund	King not said here	the door			together property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination
7	talk		king's sons and brothers's playfellow		the midst of brothers			nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent in=place
8	accent			little Europa				nom accent «communication transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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