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Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 107

After all, he was not an ill-looking person, especially when he left off twisting his features into a smile that did not belong to them.

Who acts: visage, smile · What happens: look, not be, leave off, twist, not belong, feature · To what, where: looking person, features, smile

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 (visage, smile), 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

caseoblpunctnsubjcopadvmoddetcompoundpunctamodpunctadvmodadvmodnsubjacl:relclcompound:prtxcompnmod:possobjcasedetoblnsubjauxadvmodacl:relclcaseoblpunctrootAfterADPallDET,PUNCThePRONwasAUXnotPARTanDETillADJ-PUNCTlookingVERBpersonNOUN,PUNCTespeciallyADVwhenADVhePRONleftVERBoffADPtwistingVERBhisPRONfeaturesNOUNintoADPaDETsmileNOUNthatPRONdidAUXnotPARTbelongVERBtoADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_2 allcase
2allallDETPronType=Tot11 personobl
3,,PUNCT_2 allpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 personnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 personcop
6notnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 personadvmod
7anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 persondet
8illillADJDegree=Pos10 lookingcompound
9--PUNCT_8 illpunct
10lookinglookVERBVerbForm=Ger11 personamod
11personpersonNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
12,,PUNCT_16 leftpunct
13especiallyespeciallyADV_16 leftadvmod
14whenwhenADVPronType=Int16 leftadvmod
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 leftnsubj
16leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 personacl:relcl
17offoffADP_16 leftcompound:prt
18twistingtwistVERBVerbForm=Ger16 leftxcomp
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 featuresnmod:poss
20featuresfeatureNOUNNumber=Plur18 twistingobj
21intointoADP_23 smilecase
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 smiledet
23smilesmileNOUNNumber=Sing18 twistingobl
24thatthatPRONPronType=Rel27 belongnsubj
25diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 belongaux
26notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 belongadvmod
27belongbelongVERBVerbForm=Inf23 smileacl:relcl
28totoADP_29 themcase
29themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 belongobl
30..PUNCT_11 personpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lookgerundvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2not is apastvisagea looking personafter alltree rules
3leave offpastvisageespecially propertytree rules
4twistgerundvisage not said herevisage's featuresa smilevn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent feature=Theme into smile=Trajectory
5not belongpast · do-supporta smilefeatures = featurevn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6featurevisagenom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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