Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 23
I must open my heart to you to-day, for every visit you make me here I tremble to think may be the last.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: open, make, tremble, think, be · To what, where: heart, you, me · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 open | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | aux |
| 3 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 open | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 open | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 visit | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 visit | det |
| 14 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 open | parataxis |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 make | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 tremble | nsubj |
| 20 | tremble | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 think | mark |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tremble | xcomp |
| 23 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 last | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 last | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 last | det |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 think | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | must | I | my heart | you | day | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient to you=Recipient | ||
| 2 | make | present | you | me | here | for every visit | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent i=Product for visit=Asset | ||
| 3 | tremble | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | may | last property | tree rules |
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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