Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 62

Ceres scarcely waited to hear what the nymphs had to say, before she hurried off to make inquiries all through the neighborhood.

Who acts: Ceres, nymphs, mother · What happens: wait, hear, have, say, hurry off, make · To what, where: inquiries, neighborhood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (Ceres, nymphs, mother), 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	Ceres	cere	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waited	nsubj
2	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	3 waited	advmod
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hear	mark
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waited	xcomp
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 had	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nymphs	det
8	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hurried	punct
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	15 hurried	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hurried	nsubj
15	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waited	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 hurried	compound:prt
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hurried	xcomp
19	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
20	all	all	ADV	_	23 neighborhood	advmod
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 neighborhood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 neighborhood	det
23	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	past	Ceres			scarcely property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	Ceres not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	have	past	the nymphs				tree rules
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the nymphs not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	hurry off	past	mother				tree rules
6	make	to-infinitive	mother not said here	inquiries	the neighborhood		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset inquiry=Product

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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