--- title: Meantime, as I told you before, Eurylochus had waited, and waited, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Meantime, as I told you before, Eurylochus had waited, and waited, and waited, in the entrance hall of the palace, without being able to comprehend what had befallen his friends. Who acts: I, Eurylochus. 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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 (I, Eurylochus), 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:pg976:17:54 # text = Meantime, as I told you before, Eurylochus had waited, and waited, and waited, in the entrance hall of the palace, without being able to comprehend what had befallen his friends. 1 Meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 before before ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 Eurylochus Eurylochus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 waited wait VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 waited wait VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 without without SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 cop _ _ 29 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 comprehend comprehend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 befallen befall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 ccomp _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I | Meantime *not said here* | you | | | before *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **wait** | past · perfect | Eurylochus | Meantime | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wait** | past | Eurylochus *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | past | Eurylochus *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | gerund | Eurylochus *not said here* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **comprehend** | to-infinitive | Eurylochus *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **befall** | past · perfect · passive | | Eurylochus's friends | | | | | tree rules | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/55/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/)