Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 43

The eyes of Theseus glowed with enthusiasm, and he would hardly sit still to hear his mother speak.

Who acts: eyes, Theseus · What happens: glow, sit, hear · To what, where: mother speak

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 (eyes, Theseus), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eyes	det
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glowed	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Theseus	case
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 eyes	nmod
5	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 enthusiasm	case
7	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glowed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sit	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sit	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sit	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sit	aux
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	13 sit	advmod
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glowed	conj
14	still	still	ADV	_	13 sit	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hear	mark
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sit	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 speak	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 speak	compound
19	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	glow	past	the eyes of Theseus			with enthusiasm	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with enthusiasm=Theme
2	sit	would	Theseus		still	hardly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	Theseus's mother speak			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speak=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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