Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 65

They looked him earnestly in the face, waiting for his next order, and evidently desiring no other employment than to follow him from one battlefield to another, all over the wide world.

Who acts: teeth, Cadmus · What happens: look, wait, desire, follow, order · To what, where: Cadmus, face, other employment, one battlefield

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (teeth, Cadmus), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obj
4	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 face	det
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 waiting	punct
9	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 order	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 order	nmod:poss
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 order	amod
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 waiting	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 desiring	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 desiring	cc
16	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	17 desiring	advmod
17	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 looked	advcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 employment	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 employment	amod
20	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 desiring	obj
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 follow	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	23 follow	mark
23	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 desiring	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 follow	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 battlefield	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 battlefield	nummod
27	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 follow	obl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 another	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 battlefield	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 world	punct
31	all	all	ADV	_	35 world	advmod
32	over	over	ADP	_	35 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
34	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 world	amod
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 follow	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	teeth = tooth	Cadmus	the face	earnestly property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute
2	wait	gerund	teeth = tooth not said here			for Cadmus's next order	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	desire	gerund	teeth = tooth not said here	no other employment		evidently property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot employment=Theme
4	follow	to-infinitive	teeth = tooth not said here	Cadmus	one battlefield to another	over the wide world	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from battlefield=Trajectory
5	order		Cadmus				nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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