Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 68

There Eurylochus waited until he was quite weary, and listened eagerly to every sound, but without hearing anything that could help him to guess what had become of his friends.

Who acts: Eurylochus · What happens: wait, be, listen, hear, help, guess · To what, where: anything, Eurylochus, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eurylochus), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 waited	expl
2	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 weary	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 weary	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 weary	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 weary	advmod
8	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 waited	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listened	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 listened	cc
11	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
12	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	11 listened	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 sound	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 sound	det
15	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listened	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hearing	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 hearing	cc
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 hearing	mark
19	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 waited	advcl
20	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 hearing	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 help	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 anything	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 guess	mark
26	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 help	xcomp
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 become	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 become	aux
29	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 guess	ccomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 friends	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friends	nmod:poss
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 become	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Eurylochus		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Eurylochus			weary property	tree rules
3	listen	past	Eurylochus not said here			to every sound; eagerly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme
4	hear	gerund	Eurylochus not said here	anything			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
5	help	could		Eurylochus			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	guess	to-infinitive	Eurylochus not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	become	past · perfect		Eurylochus's friends			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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