Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 78
Her eyes were deep violet with an expression none could describe.
Who acts: eyes, none · What happens: be, describe · To what, where: deep violet
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, none), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 violet | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 violet | cop |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 violet | amod |
| 5 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 describe | mark |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 none | det |
| 8 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 none | compound |
| 9 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 describe | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 describe | aux |
| 11 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 violet | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 violet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ilse's eyes | deep violet | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | could | none | deep violet not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent violet=Theme |
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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