Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 23

His mother stood looking on, with a sad kind of a smile on her lips and in her eyes, to see the zealous and yet puny efforts of her little boy.

Who acts: mother · What happens: stand, look on, see · To what, where: zealous efforts

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stood	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 looking	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 kind	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kind	det
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kind	amod
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 smile	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 smile	det
13	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 lips	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 lips	nmod:poss
16	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 smile	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 eyes	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lips	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stood	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 efforts	det
25	zealous	zealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 efforts	amod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 puny	cc
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	28 puny	advmod
28	puny	puny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 zealous	conj
29	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 see	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 boy	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 boy	nmod:poss
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 boy	amod
33	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 efforts	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	wonder's mother			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look on	gerund	wonder's mother not said here		with a sad kind of a smile on mother's lips and mother's eyes	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	to-infinitive	wonder's mother not said here	the zealous efforts of mother's little boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer effort=Stimulus

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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