Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 21

"Oh, Henry!" exclaimed Eva von Trotta, for the youthful form belongs to no other than this Fair Rosamond of Germany, "you strive to comfort me, but in vain.

Who acts: Henry, youthful form, you · What happens: exclaim, belong, strive, comfort · To what, where: Eva, Henry · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Henry, youthful form, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Henry	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 Henry	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Henry	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Henry	punct
7	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 exclaimed	obj
9	von	von	PROPN	_	8 Eva	flat
10	Trotta	Trotta	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Eva	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 belongs	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 belongs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 form	det
14	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 form	amod
15	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 belongs	nsubj
16	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 exclaimed	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 other	case
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 belongs	obl
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 Rosamond	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 Rosamond	nsubj
22	Fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Rosamond	amod
23	Rosamond	Rosamond	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 other	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Germany	case
25	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Rosamond	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 strive	punct
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 strive	nsubj
29	strive	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 belongs	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 comfort	mark
31	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 strive	xcomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 comfort	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 vain	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 vain	cc
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 vain	case
36	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 exclaimed	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Henry	Eva		tree rules
2	belong	present	the youthful form		to no other than Fair Rosamond this of Germany	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	strive in a quote	present	you			tree rules
4	comfort in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Henry		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 21