Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 42

The old people shook their white heads, and said that the earth had grown aged like themselves, and was no longer capable of wearing the warm smile of summer on its face.

Who acts: old people · What happens: shake, say, grow, age, be, wear · To what, where: white heads, earth, warm smile, face, summer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old people), 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	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shook	nsubj
4	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heads	amod
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shook	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shook	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 grown	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 earth	det
13	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grown	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grown	aux
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
16	aged	age	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 grown	xcomp
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 themselves	case
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 aged	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 capable	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 capable	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 capable	cop
22	no	no	ADV	_	23 longer	advmod
23	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 capable	advmod
24	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shook	parataxis
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 wearing	mark
26	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 capable	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 smile	det
28	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 smile	amod
29	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wearing	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 summer	case
31	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 smile	nmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 face	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 face	nmod:poss
34	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wearing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shake	past	the old people	people's white heads			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	grow	past · perfect · passive		the earth			tree rules
4	age	participle				like people	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is	past				capable, long property	tree rules
6	wear	gerund		the warm smile of summer	earth's face		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smile=Source
7	smile			summer			nom smile «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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