--- title: The tone and countenance of Ulysses were so awful, and his sword gle… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The tone and countenance of Ulysses were so awful, and his sword gleamed so brightly, and seemed to have so intolerably keen an edge, that Circe was almost killed by the mere fright, without waiting for a blow. Who acts: tone, sword, mere fright. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tone, sword, mere fright), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg976:18:66 # text = The tone and countenance of Ulysses were so awful, and his sword gleamed so brightly, and seemed to have so intolerably keen an edge, that Circe was almost killed by the mere fright, without waiting for a blow. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 countenance countenance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Ulysses Ulysses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 awful awful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gleamed gleam VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 brightly brightly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 intolerably intolerably ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 keen keen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 Circe Circe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 31 almost almost ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 mere mere NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 fright fright NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 without without SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the tone and countenance of Ulysses | | | | | awful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **gleam** | past | Ulysses's sword | | | | | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **seem** | past | Ulysses's sword *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | Ulysses's sword *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keen** | infinitive | Ulysses's sword *not said here* | a edge | | | | intolerably *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Topic | | 6 | **kill** | past · passive | the mere fright | Circe | | | | almost *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 7 | **wait** | gerund | the mere fright *not said here* | | | | | for a blow | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/67/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/)