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title: They looked him earnestly in the face, waiting for his next order, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They looked him earnestly in the face, waiting for his next order, and evidently desiring no other employment than to follow him from one battlefield to another, all over the wide world. Who acts: teeth, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 65

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They looked him earnestly in the face, waiting for his next order, and evidently desiring no other employment than to follow him from one battlefield to another, all over the wide world.

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**Who acts:** teeth, Cadmus · **What happens:** look, wait, desire, follow, order · **To what, where:** Cadmus, face, other employment, one battlefield

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teeth, Cadmus), 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:pg976:13:65
# text = They looked him earnestly in the face, waiting for his next order, and evidently desiring no other employment than to follow him from one battlefield to another, all over the wide world.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | teeth *= tooth* | Cadmus |  | the face |  | earnestly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Cadmus's next order | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **desire** | gerund | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | no other employment |  |  |  | evidently *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot employment=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | Cadmus |  | one battlefield to another |  | over the wide world | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from battlefield=Trajectory |
| 5 | **order** |  | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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