Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 51

The third was a noble, imposing form, the fearless countenance framed in a thousand auburn locks of curly hair; the eye was full of fire and courage, the bold lips full of power.

Who acts: third, eye · What happens: be, frame · To what, where: noble imposing form, fearless countenance

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third, eye), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 third	det
2	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 form	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 form	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 form	det
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 noble	punct
7	imposing	imposing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	amod
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 countenance	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 countenance	det
11	fearless	fearless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 countenance	amod
12	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 form	appos
13	framed	frame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 countenance	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 locks	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thousand	det
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 locks	nummod
17	auburn	auburn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 locks	compound
18	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 framed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hair	case
20	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hair	amod
21	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 locks	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 eye	det
24	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 full	cop
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 form	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 fire	case
28	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 courage	cc
30	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fire	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lips	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lips	det
33	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lips	amod
34	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fire	conj
35	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 lips	amod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 power	case
37	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 full	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 form	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the third	a noble imposing form	the fearless countenance appos	tree rules
2	frame	participle		the fearless countenance not said here	in thousand auburn locks of curly hair	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in lock=Theme
3	is	past	the eye		of fire and courage and the bold lips; full property	tree rules

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 14, sentence 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 51