Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 6

The king was a stern and cruel looking potentate; and though he put on as polite and hospitable an expression as he could, Jason did not like his face a whit better than that of the wicked King Pelias, who dethroned his father. "

Who acts: king, Jason, wicked King Pelias · What happens: be, look, put on, not like, dethrone · To what, where: stern, face, father

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (king, Jason, wicked King Pelias), 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 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stern	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stern	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stern	det
5	stern	stern	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 potentate	cc
7	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 potentate	amod
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 potentate	amod
9	potentate	potentate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stern	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 put	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	nsubj
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stern	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 put	compound:prt
16	as	as	ADP	_	21 expression	case
17	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 expression	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hospitable	cc
19	hospitable	hospitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 polite	conj
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 expression	det
21	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 put	obl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 could	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 could	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 put	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 like	punct
26	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 like	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 like	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 like	advmod
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stern	parataxis
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 like	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 whit	det
33	whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 better	nsubj
34	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 like	parataxis
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 that	case
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 better	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 Pelias	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Pelias	det
39	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Pelias	amod
40	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Pelias	compound
41	Pelias	Pelias	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 that	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 dethroned	punct
43	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 dethroned	nsubj
44	dethroned	dethrone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 Pelias	acl:relcl
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 father	nmod:poss
46	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 dethroned	obj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 like	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 stern	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the king	a stern and cruel looking potentate		tree rules
2	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	put on	past	king		as a polite expression	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
4	not like	past · do-support	Jason	king's face		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot face=Theme
5	dethrone	past	the wicked King Pelias	king's father		tree rules

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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