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title: The last that they saw of King Agenor, he came to the door, with a s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The last that they saw of King Agenor, he came to the door, with a servant holding a torch beside him, and called after them into the gathering darkness: Who acts: Cadmus, Agenor, servant. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 85

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The last that they saw of King Agenor, he came to the door, with a servant holding a torch beside him, and called after them into the gathering darkness:

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**Who acts:** Cadmus, Agenor, servant · **What happens:** see, come, hold, call · **To what, where:** door, torch, gathering darkness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Cadmus, Agenor, servant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg976:10:85
# text = The last that they saw of King Agenor, he came to the door, with a servant holding a torch beside him, and called after them into the gathering darkness:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	gathering	gathering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | of King Agenor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | past | Agenor |  |  | the door |  | with a servant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | a servant *not said here* | a torch |  |  |  | beside Agenor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme beside he=Location |
| 4 | **call** | participle | Agenor *not said here* |  |  | the gathering darkness | after Cadmus |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into darkness=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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