Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 106
But the duskier it grew, the more did Pluto's visage assume an air of satisfaction.
Who acts: air, visage · What happens: grow, assume · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (air, visage), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 duskier | det |
| 3 | duskier | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 grew | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 assume | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 more | det |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 assume | advcl |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 assume | aux |
| 10 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 visage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Pluto | case |
| 12 | visage | visage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assume | nsubj |
| 13 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grew | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assume | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 satisfaction | case |
| 17 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 air | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | air | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | assume | past · do-support | Pluto's visage | a air of satisfaction | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
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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