Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 90

The face of this wonderful statue, though not angry or forbidding, was so grave and majestic, that perhaps you might call it severe; and as for the mouth, it seemed just ready to unclose its lips, and utter words of the deepest wisdom.

Who acts: face, you, it · What happens: forbid, be, call, seem, unclose, word · To what, where: that, utter words, lips, deepest wisdom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, you, it), 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 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grave	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 statue	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 statue	det
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 statue	amod
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 face	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 angry	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 angry	mark
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 angry	advmod
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 face	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 forbidding	cc
12	forbidding	forbid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 angry	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 face	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grave	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 grave	advmod
16	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 majestic	cc
18	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grave	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 call	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 call	obl
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	24 call	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 call	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 call	aux
24	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 grave	parataxis
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 call	obj
26	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 call	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 as	cc
29	as	as	ADV	_	35 seemed	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 mouth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mouth	det
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 as	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seemed	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seemed	nsubj
35	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grave	parataxis
36	just	just	ADV	_	37 ready	advmod
37	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 seemed	xcomp
38	to	to	PART	_	39 unclose	mark
39	unclose	unclose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 ready	xcomp
40	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 lips	nmod:poss
41	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 unclose	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 words	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 words	cc
44	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 words	amod
45	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 seemed	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 wisdom	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 wisdom	det
48	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	49 wisdom	amod
49	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 words	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 grave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forbid	gerund	the face of this wonderful statue not said here			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
2	is	past	the face of this wonderful statue		grave property	tree rules
3	be		the face of this wonderful statue not said here			tree rules
4	call	might	you	that	perhaps, severe property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	seem	past	it	utter words of the deepest wisdom	ready property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Attribute
6	unclose	to-infinitive		face's lips		tree rules
7	word			the deepest wisdom		nom word «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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