Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 37
Lost in her sad thoughts, her fingers swept lightly the strings of the lute, calling forth soft melodious notes.
Who acts: fingers, Jutta · What happens: lose, sweep, call, think · To what, where: sad thoughts, strings, soft melodious notes · 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 (fingers, 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 | Lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 thoughts | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thoughts | amod |
| 5 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Lost | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swept | punct |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swept | nsubj |
| 9 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lost | conj |
| 10 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 12 strings | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 strings | det |
| 12 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swept | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lute | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lute | det |
| 15 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strings | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 calling | punct |
| 17 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 swept | advcl |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 calling | advmod |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 notes | amod |
| 20 | melodious | melodious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 notes | amod |
| 21 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 calling | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | Jutta's sad thoughts | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | sweep | past | Jutta's fingers | the strings of the lute | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | Jutta's fingers not said here | soft melodious notes | forth property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent note=Recipient | |||
| 4 | think | Jutta | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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