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title: Beautiful as her face was, and though there was a smile on it, it lo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Beautiful as her face was, and though there was a smile on it, it looked just as wicked and mischievous as the ugliest serpent that ever was seen; and fat-witted as the voyagers had made themselves, they began to suspect that they had fallen into the power of an evil-minded enchantress. Who acts: fa
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 36

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Beautiful as her face was, and though there was a smile on it, it looked just as wicked and mischievous as the ugliest serpent that ever was seen; and fat-witted as the voyagers had made themselves, they began to suspect that they had fallen into the power of an evil-minded enchantress.

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**Who acts:** face, voyagers · **What happens:** be, look, see, make, begin, suspect · **To what, where:** smile, face, ugliest serpent, voyagers, power

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (face, voyagers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:17:36
# text = Beautiful as her face was, and though there was a smile on it, it looked just as wicked and mischievous as the ugliest serpent that ever was seen; and fat-witted as the voyagers had made themselves, they began to suspect that they had fallen into the power of an evil-minded enchantress.
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	ugliest	ugly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	witted	witted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	_
41	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	suspect	suspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	ccomp	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
55	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
56	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | woman's face |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a smile |  | face |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | face |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past · passive |  | the ugliest serpent |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the voyagers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary themselves=Product |
| 6 | **begin** | past | voyagers *= voyager* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **suspect** | to-infinitive | voyagers *= voyager* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **fall** | past · perfect | voyagers *= voyager* |  |  |  |  | into the power of a minded enchantress *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result |

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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.

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**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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