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title: The eyes of Theseus glowed with enthusiasm, and he would hardly sit… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The eyes of Theseus glowed with enthusiasm, and he would hardly sit still to hear his mother speak. Who acts: eyes, Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 43

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The eyes of Theseus glowed with enthusiasm, and he would hardly sit still to hear his mother speak.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Theseus · **What happens:** glow, sit, hear · **To what, where:** mother speak

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (eyes, Theseus), 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:pg976:3:43
# text = The eyes of Theseus glowed with enthusiasm, and he would hardly sit still to hear his mother speak.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past | the eyes of Theseus |  |  |  |  | with enthusiasm | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with enthusiasm=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | would | Theseus |  |  |  | still | hardly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Theseus *not said here* | Theseus's mother speak |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speak=Stimulus |

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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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