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title: The face of this wonderful statue, though not angry or forbidding, w… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The face of this wonderful statue, though not angry or forbidding, was so grave and majestic, that perhaps you might call it severe; and as for the mouth, it seemed just ready to unclose its lips, and utter words of the deepest wisdom. Who acts: face, you, it. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nat
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 90

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The face of this wonderful statue, though not angry or forbidding, was so grave and majestic, that perhaps you might call it severe; and as for the mouth, it seemed just ready to unclose its lips, and utter words of the deepest wisdom.

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**Who acts:** face, you, it · **What happens:** forbid, be, call, seem, unclose, word · **To what, where:** that, utter words, lips, deepest wisdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, you, it), 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:pg976:26:90
# text = The face of this wonderful statue, though not angry or forbidding, was so grave and majestic, that perhaps you might call it severe; and as for the mouth, it seemed just ready to unclose its lips, and utter words of the deepest wisdom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	forbidding	forbid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	obl	_	_
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	xcomp	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	unclose	unclose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	49	amod	_	_
49	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | gerund | the face of this wonderful statue *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the face of this wonderful statue |  |  |  |  | grave *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the face of this wonderful statue *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | might | you | that |  |  |  | perhaps, severe *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
| 5 | **seem** | past | it | utter words of the deepest wisdom |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme word=Attribute |
| 6 | **unclose** | to-infinitive |  | face's lips |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | the deepest wisdom |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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