Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 25
In vain Jutta threw herself at her father's feet and declared she loved a handsome, good, and noble youth of ancient race.
Who acts: Jutta · What happens: throw, declare, love · To what, where: Jutta, vain Jutta, handsome · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jutta), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Jutta | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jutta | amod |
| 3 | Jutta | Jutta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 feet | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 declared | cc |
| 12 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 declared | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 handsome | det |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 loved | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 good | punct |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 handsome | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 youth | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 youth | cc |
| 21 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 youth | amod |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 race | case |
| 24 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 race | amod |
| 25 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 youth | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Jutta | vain Jutta | at Jutta's father's feet; noble youth of ancient race obl | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in jutta=Destination | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | love | past | Jutta | a handsome | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer handsome=Stimulus |
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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