Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 24

And yet it is all wrong--all wrong, Henry; every visit, every gift from your dear hand is a sin against the good and noble-minded Duchess, once my motherly friend, a sin against your lawful children."

Who acts: heart, visit · What happens: be · To what, where: sin

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 (heart, visit), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrong	cc
2	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 wrong	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrong	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	cop
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 wrong	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wrong	det
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wrong	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Henry	punct
11	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 wrong	vocative
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sin	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 visit	det
14	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sin	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gift	punct
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 gift	det
17	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 visit	appos
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 hand	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hand	amod
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gift	nmod
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 sin	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sin	det
24	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrong	conj
25	against	against	ADP	_	32 Duchess	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Duchess	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Duchess	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 minded	cc
29	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 minded	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 noble	punct
31	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 good	conj
32	Duchess	duchess	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sin	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 friend	punct
34	once	once	SCONJ	_	37 friend	mark
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 friend	nmod:poss
36	motherly	motherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 friend	amod
37	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sin	appos
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sin	punct
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 sin	det
40	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 friend	conj
41	against	against	ADP	_	44 children	case
42	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 children	nmod:poss
43	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 children	amod
44	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 sin	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 friend	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 friend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	heart		yet	all, wrong property	tree rules
2	be		heart not said here			Henry vocative	tree rules
3	is a	present	every visit	a sin		against the good Duchess; my motherly friend and a sin against your lawful children appos	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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 24

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 24