Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 16
The maiden was saved, and looked gratefully upon her deliverer--and what a look!
What happens: save, look · To what, where: maiden
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saved | aux:pass |
| 4 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saved | conj |
| 8 | gratefully | gratefully | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 deliverer | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 11 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 what | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 what | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 saved | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 look | det |
| 16 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | nsubj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · passive | the maiden | what a look parataxis | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | upon horse's deliverer; gratefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon deliverer=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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