Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 29
Ernst was in despair, and Jutta wept hours at a time, which only spoiled her pretty eyes without doing her the least good.
Who acts: Ernst, Jutta, despair · What happens: be, weep, spoil, do · To what, where: despair, Jutta
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 (Ernst, Jutta, despair), 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 | Ernst | Ernst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 despair | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despair | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wept | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wept | cc |
| 7 | Jutta | Jutta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wept | nsubj |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despair | acl:relcl |
| 9 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wept | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wept | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoiled | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 spoiled | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 spoiled | advmod |
| 16 | spoiled | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despair | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spoiled | obj |
| 18 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 16 spoiled | advmod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 spoiled | obj |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 doing | mark |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 spoiled | advcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 doing | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 good | det |
| 24 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 good | amod |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 doing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ernst | despair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Jutta | despair not said here | hour; time | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent despair=Theme | |||
| 3 | spoil | past | despair | Jutta | eyes obj; pretty property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | do | gerund | despair not said here | Jutta | the least good obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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