Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 94
Why does the cloud of care rest on thy countenance?
What happens: do, cloud · To what, where: cloud, care rest
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | conj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloud | det |
| 4 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 does | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rest | case |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | compound |
| 7 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cloud | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 countenance | case |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rest | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the cloud of care rest on thy countenance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cloud | care rest on thy countenance | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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