Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 54

Meantime, as I told you before, Eurylochus had waited, and waited, and waited, in the entrance hall of the palace, without being able to comprehend what had befallen his friends.

Who acts: I, Eurylochus · What happens: tell, wait, be, comprehend, befall · To what, where: Meantime, you, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waited	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 told	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Meantime	acl:relcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meantime	punct
9	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 waited	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waited	aux
11	waited	wait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 waited	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 waited	cc
14	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waited	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 waited	cc
17	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 waited	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hall	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 hall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hall	det
21	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hall	compound
22	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waited	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 palace	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 palace	det
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hall	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 able	punct
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 able	mark
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 able	cop
29	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 waited	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 comprehend	mark
31	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 able	xcomp
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 befallen	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 befallen	aux
34	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 comprehend	ccomp
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friends	nmod:poss
36	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 befallen	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I	Meantime not said here	you	before property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	wait	past · perfect	Eurylochus	Meantime			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait	past	Eurylochus not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wait	past	Eurylochus not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	gerund	Eurylochus not said here			able property	tree rules
6	comprehend	to-infinitive	Eurylochus not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	befall	past · perfect · passive		Eurylochus's friends			tree rules

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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