Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 81

Her case, on the contrary, looked more desperate than ever.

Who acts: case · What happens: look

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (case), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 case	nmod:poss
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 contrary	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 contrary	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 contrary	det
6	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 case	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 case	punct
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 desperate	advmod
10	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looked	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 ever	case
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 desperate	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Ceres's case					desperate property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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