--- title: Year after year, King Agenor sat in the solitude of his beautiful pa… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Year after year, King Agenor sat in the solitude of his beautiful palace, listening in vain for their returning footsteps, hoping to hear the familiar voice of the queen, and the cheerful talk of his sons and their playfellow Thasus, entering the door together, and the sweet, childish accents of lit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/93/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/) / 93 # Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 93 Year after year, King Agenor sat in the solitude of his beautiful palace, listening in vain for their returning footsteps, hoping to hear the familiar voice of the queen, and the cheerful talk of his sons and their playfellow Thasus, entering the door together, and the sweet, childish accents of little Europa in the midst of them. **Who acts:** King, sons · **What happens:** sit, listen, return, hope, hear, enter · **To what, where:** solitude, vain, familiar voice, door, midst, little Europa 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 (King, sons), 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:pg976:10:93 # text = Year after year, King Agenor sat in the solitude of his beautiful palace, listening in vain for their returning footsteps, hoping to hear the familiar voice of the queen, and the cheerful talk of his sons and their playfellow Thasus, entering the door together, and the sweet, childish accents of little Europa in the midst of them. 1 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Agenor Agenor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 solitude solitude NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 returning return VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 amod _ _ 22 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 playfellow playfellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 44 Thasus Thasus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 entering enter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 conj _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ _ 49 together together ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 53 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 55 childish childish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nmod _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 63 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 64 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | King | | | the solitude of king's beautiful palace | year | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in solitude=Location | | 2 | **listen** | gerund | King *not said here* | | | vain | | for brothers's returning footsteps | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for footstep=Theme | | 3 | **return** | gerund | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **hope** | gerund | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the familiar voice of the queen | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 6 | **enter** | gerund | King *not said here* | the door | | | | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Destination | | 7 | **talk** | | king's sons and brothers's playfellow | | | the midst of brothers | | | nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=agent in=place | | 8 | **accent** | | | little Europa | | | | | nom accent «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/94/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)