Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 18
It was not the rosy cheek, not the crimson lips, that wounded his heart so deliciously, but her eye.
Who acts: pure, crimson lips · What happens: not be, wound · To what, where: rosy cheek, heart
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: who acts (pure, crimson lips), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cheek | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheek | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 cheek | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cheek | det |
| 5 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cheek | amod |
| 6 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lips | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 lips | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lips | det |
| 10 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lips | compound |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cheek | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wounded | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wounded | nsubj |
| 14 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lips | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wounded | obj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 deliciously | advmod |
| 18 | deliciously | deliciously | ADV | _ | 14 wounded | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eye | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 eye | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eye | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cheek | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cheek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | pure | the rosy cheek and the crimson lips but soul's eye | the crimson lips conj; soul's eye conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wound | past | the crimson lips | bliss's heart | deliciously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus heart=Experiencer |
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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