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title: The old king was never weary of having him sit beside him on his thr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The old king was never weary of having him sit beside him on his throne (which was quite wide enough for two), and of hearing him tell about his dear mother, and his childhood, and his many boyish efforts to lift the ponderous stone. Who acts: old king, king, throne. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales»
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 74

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The old king was never weary of having him sit beside him on his throne (which was quite wide enough for two), and of hearing him tell about his dear mother, and his childhood, and his many boyish efforts to lift the ponderous stone.

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**Who acts:** old king, king, throne · **What happens:** not be, have, sit, be, hear, tell · **To what, where:** king, throne, childhood, many boyish efforts, ponderous stone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (old king, king, throne), 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:pg976:4:74
# text = The old king was never weary of having him sit beside him on his throne (which was quite wide enough for two), and of hearing him tell about his dear mother, and his childhood, and his many boyish efforts to lift the ponderous stone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
42	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	boyish	boyish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	iobj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the old king |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | the old king *not said here* | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  | king's throne |  | beside king | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | king's throne |  |  |  |  | for two; enough, wide *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | gerund |  | king |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the old king *not said here* | king's childhood | king's many boyish efforts |  |  | about king's dear mother | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent effort=Recipient about mother=Topic |
| 7 | **lift** | to-infinitive | the old king *not said here* | the ponderous stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |

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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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