Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 75

Seeing him so determined, they let him go, and sat down on the sand, as disconsolate a set of people as could be, waiting and praying for his return.

Who acts: kings, Eurylochus · What happens: see, let, go, sit down, disconsolate, wait · To what, where: Eurylochus, sand, set

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 (kings, 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	Seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 determined	csubj
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Seeing	obj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 determined	advmod
4	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 determined	parataxis
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sat	cc
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 go	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 sat	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 sand	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sand	det
16	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sat	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 disconsolate	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 disconsolate	mark
19	disconsolate	disconsolate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 set	det
21	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 disconsolate	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 people	case
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 set	nmod
24	as	as	ADV	_	19 disconsolate	advmod
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 waiting	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 waiting	aux
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 waiting	punct
28	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 let	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 praying	cc
30	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 waiting	conj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 return	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 return	nmod:poss
33	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 praying	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		Eurylochus			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	let	present	kings = king	Eurylochus			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Eurylochus not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit down	past	Eurylochus not said here		the sand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location
5	disconsolate	infinitive	kings = king not said here	a set of people			tree rules
6	wait	could · progressive	kings = king not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pray	gerund	kings = king not said here			for Eurylochus's return	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for return=Theme
8	return		Eurylochus				nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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