Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 59
The stranger did not look remarkably good-natured, in spite of his smile; and as for his voice, its tones were deep and stern, and sounded as much like the rumbling of an earthquake underground than anything else.
Who acts: stranger, tones, voice, earthquake · What happens: not look, be, sound, spite, smile, intonate · To what, where: 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 (stranger, tones, voice, earthquake), 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 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 look | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 look | advmod |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | remarkably | remarkably | ADV | _ | 5 look | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 natured | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 good | punct |
| 9 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 remarkably | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 spite | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 spite | case |
| 12 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 look | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 smile | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 smile | nmod:poss |
| 15 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spite | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 deep | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 deep | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 deep | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 voice | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 voice | nmod:poss |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 as | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 deep | punct |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tones | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 deep | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 deep | cop |
| 26 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 stern | cc |
| 28 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deep | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sounded | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sounded | cc |
| 31 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 deep | parataxis |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADV | _ | 36 rumbling | advmod |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 rumbling | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rumbling | det |
| 36 | rumbling | rumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sounded | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 earthquake | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 earthquake | det |
| 39 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rumbling | nmod |
| 40 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 42 anything | advmod |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 anything | case |
| 42 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 sounded | obl |
| 43 | else | else | ADV | _ | 42 anything | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | past · do-support | the stranger | in spite of stranger's smile; remarkably property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | voice's tones | deep property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | voice's tones not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sound | past | like the rumbling of a earthquake; than anything | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | spite | stranger's smile | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | smile | stranger | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | rumble | a earthquake | nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=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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