Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 7

There was the poor old king, too, leaning on his son's arm, and looking as if his single heart held all the grief of Athens.

Who acts: poor old king, single heart · What happens: be, lean, look, hold · To what, where: arm, grief

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old king, single heart), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 too	punct
8	too	too	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leaning	punct
10	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 arm	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arm	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 son	case
15	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaning	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looking	cc
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 leaning	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 held	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 held	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
22	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 heart	amod
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 held	nsubj
24	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 looking	advcl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 grief	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grief	det
27	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 held	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Athens	case
29	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 grief	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	the poor old king		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lean	gerund	the poor old king not said here		King's son's arm	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on arm=Location
3	look	gerund	the poor old king not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	hold	participle	King's single heart	all grief of Athens		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=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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