Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 23
"How wise! how heroic!" was the praise on every lip, while the Bürgermeister continued his interrupted address: "But we have already experienced the fact that the Arnstein is not easy to seize.
Who acts: wise, Bürgermeister, we, Arnstein, clerk · What happens: be, continue, interrupt, experience, not be, seize · To what, where: praise, lip, interrupted address, fact
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise, Bürgermeister, we, Arnstein), 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 | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wise | advmod |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 praise | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heroic | advmod |
| 6 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wise | csubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wise | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 praise | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 praise | det |
| 11 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 lip | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 lip | det |
| 14 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 praise | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 continued | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 continued | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Bürgermeister | det |
| 18 | Bürgermeister | Bürgermeister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 continued | nsubj |
| 19 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 praise | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 address | nmod:poss |
| 21 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 address | amod |
| 22 | address | address | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 continued | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 experienced | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 experienced | punct |
| 25 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 experienced | cc |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 experienced | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 experienced | aux |
| 28 | already | already | ADV | _ | 29 experienced | advmod |
| 29 | experienced | experience | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 continued | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fact | det |
| 31 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 experienced | obj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 easy | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Arnstein | det |
| 34 | Arnstein | Arnstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 easy | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 easy | cop |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 easy | advmod |
| 37 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fact | acl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 seize | mark |
| 39 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 easy | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wise | the praise | every lip | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue | past | the Bürgermeister | clerk's interrupted address | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent address=Theme | ||||
| 3 | interrupt | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | experience in a quote | present · perfect | we | the fact | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fact=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | the Arnstein | the fact not said here | easy property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | seize in a quote | to-infinitive | the Arnstein not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | address | clerk | nom address «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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