Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 39
At last her hands swept wildly over the strings in the strength of her sorrow.
Who acts: last hands, Jutta · What happens: sweep, sorrow · To what, where: strings
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 (last hands, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hands | amod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swept | nsubj |
| 5 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 5 swept | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 strings | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 strings | det |
| 9 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swept | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 strength | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 strength | det |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swept | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sorrow | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strength | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | past | Jutta's last hands | the strings | in the strength of Jutta's sorrow; wildly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over string=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sorrow | Jutta | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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