Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 102
As family ghost she harms no one, greets every one she meets, never speaks, and always wears a white veil and carries a bunch of keys in her girdle.
Who acts: Frau · What happens: harm, greet, meet, not speak, wear, carry · To what, where: one, white veil, bunch, girdle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frau), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 ghost | case |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ghost | compound |
| 3 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harms | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 harms | nsubj |
| 5 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harms | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 greets | punct |
| 9 | greets | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harms | conj |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greets | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 meets | nsubj |
| 13 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 speaks | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 speaks | advmod |
| 16 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 meets | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wears | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wears | cc |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 wears | advmod |
| 20 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 harms | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 veil | det |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 veil | amod |
| 23 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wears | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carries | cc |
| 25 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wears | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bunch | det |
| 27 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carries | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 keys | case |
| 29 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bunch | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 girdle | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 32 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carries | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 harms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harm | present | Frau | no one | as family ghost | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | present | Frau not said here | every one | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | present | Frau | every one not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not speak speech: other | present | Frau not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wear | present | Frau not said here | a white veil | always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | |||
| 6 | carry | present | Frau not said here | a bunch of keys | Frau's girdle | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bunch=Value in girdle=Location |
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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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