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title: After all, he was not an ill-looking person, especially when he left… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After all, he was not an ill-looking person, especially when he left off twisting his features into a smile that did not belong to them. Who acts: visage, smile. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 107

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After all, he was not an ill-looking person, especially when he left off twisting his features into a smile that did not belong to them.

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**Who acts:** visage, smile · **What happens:** look, not be, leave off, twist, not belong, feature · **To what, where:** looking person, features, smile

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visage, smile), 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:pg976:20:107
# text = After all, he was not an ill-looking person, especially when he left off twisting his features into a smile that did not belong to them.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | visage | a looking person |  |  | after all |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave off** | past | visage |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **twist** | gerund | visage *not said here* | visage's features |  | a smile |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent feature=Theme into smile=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **belong** | past · do-support | a smile |  | features *= feature* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **feature** |  | visage |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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