--- title: He was of a noble aspect, and rather handsome, but looked sullen and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He was of a noble aspect, and rather handsome, but looked sullen and discontented; and he kept rubbing his eyes and shading them with his hand, as if he did not live enough in the sunshine to be very fond of its light. Who acts: man, sunshine. 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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 (man, sunshine), 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:pg976:20:52 # text = He was of a noble aspect, and rather handsome, but looked sullen and discontented; and he kept rubbing his eyes and shading them with his hand, as if he did not live enough in the sunshine to be very fond of its light. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 aspect aspect NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 rather rather ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 sullen sullen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 discontented discontent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 21 rubbing rub VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 xcomp _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 shading shade VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 37 enough enough ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 cop _ _ 43 very very ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 acl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | man | | | | | of a noble aspect | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | past | | | | | | sullen *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **discontent** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **keep** | past | man | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **rub** | gerund | man *not said here* | man's eyes | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 7 | **shade** | gerund | man *not said here* | eyes *= eye* | | | | with man's hand | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 8 | **not** **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | man | | | the sunshine | | enough *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location | | 9 | **is** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | of sunshine's light; fond *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **light** | | sunshine | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/53/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/)