--- title: The stranger did not look remarkably good-natured, in spite of his s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The stranger did not look remarkably good-natured, in spite of his smile; and as for his voice, its tones were deep and stern, and sounded as much like the rumbling of an earthquake underground than anything else. Who acts: stranger, tones, voice, earthquake. 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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 (stranger, tones, voice, earthquake), 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:pg976:20:59 # text = The stranger did not look remarkably good-natured, in spite of his smile; and as for his voice, its tones were deep and stern, and sounded as much like the rumbling of an earthquake underground than anything else. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 remarkably remarkably ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 natured natured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 tones tone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 stern stern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 32 as as ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 much much ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 rumbling rumbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 underground underground ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 31 obl _ _ 43 else else ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **look** | past · do-support | the stranger | | | | | in spite of stranger's smile; remarkably *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spite=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | voice's tones | | | | | deep *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | voice's tones *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sound** | past | | | | | | like the rumbling of a earthquake; than anything | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **spite** | | | stranger's smile | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **smile** | | stranger | | | | | | nom smile «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **intonate** | | voice | | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **rumble** | | a earthquake | | | | | | nom rumbling «event intransitive»: of=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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/60/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/20/)