--- title: Then, grasping the pilgrim's staff that had supported him so long, h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then, grasping the pilgrim's staff that had supported him so long, he set forth again, hoping still to discover some hoof-mark of the snow-white bull, some trace of the vanished child. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/75/) [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 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/) / 75 # Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 75 Then, grasping the pilgrim's staff that had supported him so long, he set forth again, hoping still to discover some hoof-mark of the snow-white bull, some trace of the vanished child. **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** grasp, support, set, hope, discover, vanish · **To what, where:** staff, trace, hoof mark, white bull This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (king), 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:pg976:11:75 # text = Then, grasping the pilgrim's staff that had supported him so long, he set forth again, hoping still to discover some hoof-mark of the snow-white bull, some trace of the vanished child. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 grasping grasp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pilgrim pilgrim NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 supported support VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 17 forth forth ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 25 hoof hoof NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 trace trace NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 vanished vanish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 amod _ _ 40 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grasp** | gerund | | | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **support** | past · perfect · passive | | the pilgrim's staff | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **set** | past | king | | | | again | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **hope** | gerund | king *not said here* | some trace of the vanished child | | | still | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **discover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | some hoof mark of the white bull | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Topic | | 6 | **vanish** | participle | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **mark** | | | the white bull | | | | | nom mark «cognition 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/76/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/11/)