Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 70
"Because you are so beautiful," cried Otto; "and, if I cannot win you I can look at you."
Who acts: you, Otto · What happens: be, cry, not win, look · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Otto), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 beautiful | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cried | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 look | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 win | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 win | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 win | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 win | advmod |
| 19 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 look | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 win | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 look | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 look | aux |
| 23 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 look | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Otto | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not win a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | Otto | you | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | look in a quote | can | Otto | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=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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