--- title: She looked very aged, and wrinkled, and infirm; and yet her eyes, wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She looked very aged, and wrinkled, and infirm; and yet her eyes, which were as brown as those of an ox, were so extremely large and beautiful, that, when they were fixed on Jason's eyes, he could see nothing else but them. Who acts: schoolmaster, eyes, Jason. 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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 (schoolmaster, eyes, Jason), 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:pg976:25:36 # text = She looked very aged, and wrinkled, and infirm; and yet her eyes, which were as brown as those of an ox, were so extremely large and beautiful, that, when they were fixed on Jason's eyes, he could see nothing else but them. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wrinkled wrinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 infirm infirm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 yet yet ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 20 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 ox ox NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 extremely extremely ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 34 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 36 when when SCONJ WRB _ 39 mark _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 42 's 's PART POS _ 41 case _ _ 43 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 48 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 47 obj _ _ 49 else else ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 50 but but CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | schoolmaster | | | | | aged *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **wrinkle** | participle | schoolmaster *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **infirm** | infinitive | schoolmaster *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | schoolmaster's eyes | | | | | as those; brown *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | | | | | | extremely, large *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **fix** | past · passive | | eyes *= eye* | | Jason's eyes | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **see** | could | Jason | nothing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/37/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/25/)