Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 16
The grace of all her movements seemed akin to poetry and music, and the expression of her radiant countenance betokened a noble and amiable mind.
Who acts: grace, expression · What happens: seem, betoken, move · To what, where: noble mind
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grace, expression), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grace | det |
| 2 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 movements | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 movements | det:predet |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 movements | nmod:poss |
| 6 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grace | nmod |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | akin | akin | ADV | _ | 7 seemed | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 poetry | case |
| 10 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 music | cc |
| 12 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poetry | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 betokened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 betokened | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 expression | det |
| 16 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 betokened | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 countenance | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 countenance | amod |
| 20 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 expression | nmod |
| 21 | betokened | betoken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seemed | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 mind | det |
| 23 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mind | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 amiable | cc |
| 25 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 noble | conj |
| 26 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 betokened | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the grace of grace's movements | to poetry and music; akin property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | betoken | past | the expression of grace's radiant countenance | a noble mind | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | move | grace | nom movement «act 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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