--- title: While they were standing there, all in dismay, their mother, Queen T… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: While they were standing there, all in dismay, their mother, Queen Telephassa (who happened not to be by when they told the story to the king), came hurrying after them, and said that she too would go in quest of her daughter. Who acts: eyes, Telephassa, daughter. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Telephassa, daughter), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:10:75 # text = While they were standing there, all in dismay, their mother, Queen Telephassa (who happened not to be by when they told the story to the king), came hurrying after them, and said that she too would go in quest of her daughter. 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 dismay dismay NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:desc _ _ 15 Telephassa Telephassa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 hurrying hurry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 xcomp _ _ 35 after after ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 parataxis _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 too too ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 ccomp _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | eyes *= eye* | all dismay Telephassa Queen and eyes's mother | | there | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dismay=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **happen** | past | Telephassa Queen | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | eyes *= eye* | | | | | tell *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | past | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hurry** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | | after eyes *= eye* | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **go** | would | Telephassa | | | quest of Telephassa's daughter | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location | | 8 | **quest** | | Telephassa's daughter | | | | | | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/76/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)