Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 74

The old king was never weary of having him sit beside him on his throne (which was quite wide enough for two), and of hearing him tell about his dear mother, and his childhood, and his many boyish efforts to lift the ponderous stone.

Who acts: old king, king, throne · What happens: not be, have, sit, be, hear, tell · To what, where: king, throne, childhood, many boyish efforts, ponderous stone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old king, king, throne), 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	3 king	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weary	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 weary	cop
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 weary	advmod
6	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 having	mark
8	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 weary	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 having	obj
10	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 having	xcomp
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sit	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 throne	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 throne	nmod:poss
15	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sit	obl
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 wide	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 wide	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wide	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 wide	advmod
20	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 throne	parataxis
21	enough	enough	ADV	_	20 wide	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 two	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 wide	obl
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 wide	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 hearing	mark
28	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 tell	advcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hearing	obj
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weary	conj
31	about	about	ADP	_	34 mother	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 mother	amod
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 childhood	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 childhood	cc
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 childhood	nmod:poss
38	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 efforts	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 efforts	cc
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 efforts	nmod:poss
42	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 efforts	amod
43	boyish	boyish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 efforts	amod
44	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tell	iobj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 lift	mark
46	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 efforts	acl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 stone	det
48	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 stone	amod
49	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lift	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 weary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the old king				weary property	tree rules
2	have	gerund	the old king not said here	king				tree rules
3	sit	infinitive	king not said here			king's throne	beside king	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location
4	is	past	king's throne				for two; enough, wide property	tree rules
5	hear	gerund		king				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the old king not said here	king's childhood	king's many boyish efforts		about king's dear mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent effort=Recipient about mother=Topic
7	lift	to-infinitive	the old king not said here	the ponderous stone				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

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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