Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 36

Beautiful as her face was, and though there was a smile on it, it looked just as wicked and mischievous as the ugliest serpent that ever was seen; and fat-witted as the voyagers had made themselves, they began to suspect that they had fallen into the power of an evil-minded enchantress.

Who acts: face, voyagers · What happens: be, look, see, make, begin, suspect · To what, where: smile, face, ugliest serpent, voyagers, power

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, voyagers), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 face	nmod:poss
4	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Beautiful	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 smile	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 smile	cc
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smile	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 smile	det
12	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Beautiful	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 smile	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 smile	conj
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 wicked	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 wicked	advmod
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mischievous	cc
22	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wicked	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	26 serpent	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 serpent	det
25	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 serpent	amod
26	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wicked	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 seen	nsubj
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 seen	advmod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux:pass
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 serpent	acl:relcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 witted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 witted	cc
33	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 witted	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 fat	punct
35	witted	witted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Beautiful	conj
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 made	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 voyagers	det
38	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 made	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 made	aux
40	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 began	advcl
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 made	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 made	punct
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 began	nsubj
44	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 witted	parataxis
45	to	to	PART	_	46 suspect	mark
46	suspect	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 began	xcomp
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 fallen	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 fallen	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 fallen	aux
50	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 suspect	ccomp
51	into	into	ADP	_	53 power	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 power	det
53	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fallen	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	59 enchantress	case
55	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 enchantress	det
56	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 minded	compound
57	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 evil	punct
58	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 enchantress	amod
59	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 power	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	woman's face					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		a smile	face			tree rules
3	look	past	face				wicked property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	see	past · passive		the ugliest serpent		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	make	past · perfect · passive		the voyagers				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary themselves=Product
6	begin	past	voyagers = voyager					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	suspect	to-infinitive	voyagers = voyager not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
8	fall	past · perfect	voyagers = voyager				into the power of a minded enchantress result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result

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.

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