Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 93

One day a remark of the Earl, Albert the Handsome von Nurnberg was repeated to her: "I would willingly espouse the fair Countess Agnes, but for the four eyes."

Who acts: widow · What happens: repeat, espouse, remark · To what, where: remark, Albert, fair Countess, Earl · 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 (widow), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repeated	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 remark	det
4	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 repeated	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Earl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earl	det
7	Earl	Earl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 remark	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Albert	punct
9	Albert	Albert	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Earl	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Nurnberg	det
11	Handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Nurnberg	amod
12	von	von	PROPN	_	13 Nurnberg	compound
13	Nurnberg	Nurnberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 repeated	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 repeated	aux:pass
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 repeated	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 espouse	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 espouse	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 espouse	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 espouse	aux
22	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	23 espouse	advmod
23	espouse	espouse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 repeated	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Countess	det
25	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Countess	amod
26	Countess	Countess	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 espouse	obj
27	Agnes	Agnes	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Countess	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 eyes	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 eyes	cc
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 eyes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 eyes	det
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 eyes	nummod
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 espouse	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 espouse	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 espouse	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	past · passive		a remark of the Earl and Albert	Albert	day	the Handsome von Nurnberg nsubj:pass	tree rules
2	espouse in a quote	would	the widow = widow	the fair Countess			the four eyes conj; willingly property	tree rules
3	remark			the Earl and Albert				nom remark «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 93

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 93