Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 19

He could scarcely wait to see whether King Aegeus would recognize him, so eager was he to throw himself into his arms.

Who acts: Theseus, King · What happens: wait, see, recognize, be, throw · To what, where: Theseus, arms

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (Theseus, King), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wait	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
3	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	4 wait	advmod
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wait	advcl
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 recognize	mark
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 recognize	nsubj
9	Aegeus	Aegeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	flat
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 recognize	aux
11	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 recognize	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eager	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 eager	advmod
15	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wait	advcl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 he	cop
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 eager	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 throw	mark
19	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 eager	advcl
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 throw	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 arms	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 arms	nmod:poss
23	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 throw	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	could	Theseus		scarcely property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	recognize	would	King	Theseus		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	is a	past		Theseus		tree rules
5	throw	to-infinitive	Theseus not said here	Theseus	into Theseus's arms result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into arm=Result

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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