Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 35

The nearer she approached the shrub, the more attractive it looked, until she came quite close to it; and then, although its beauty was richer than words can tell, she hardly knew whether to like it or not.

Who acts: Proserpina, shrub, beauty, words · What happens: approach, look, come, be, tell, know · To what, where: shrub, beauty · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Proserpina, shrub, beauty, words), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nearer	det
2	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 approached	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 approached	nsubj
4	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shrub	det
6	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 attractive	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 attractive	det
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 attractive	advmod
10	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 approached	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 attractive	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	conj
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 close	advmod
18	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 close	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 richer	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 richer	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 richer	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 richer	punct
25	although	although	SCONJ	_	29 richer	mark
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 beauty	nmod:poss
27	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 richer	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 richer	cop
29	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 approached	conj
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	33 tell	mark
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tell	nsubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	aux
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 richer	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
36	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	37 knew	advmod
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 tell	ccomp
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	40 like	mark
39	to	to	PART	_	40 like	mark
40	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 knew	ccomp
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 like	obj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 not	cc
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 like	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	approach	past	Proserpina	the shrub			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrub=Theme
2	look	past	shrub				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	come	past	Proserpina			close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	shrub's beauty		then	rich property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	can	words				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	know	past	Proserpina			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	like	to-infinitive		beauty			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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