Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 25
"Dear Eva," said Henry, interrupting her, "our children are lawful.
Who acts: Dear Eva, children · What happens: say, interrupt, be · To what, where: 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 (Dear Eva, children), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Eva | amod |
| 3 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eva | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eva | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 interrupting | punct |
| 9 | interrupting | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 interrupting | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lawful | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 lawful | punct |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lawful | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lawful | cop |
| 16 | lawful | lawful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 interrupting | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dear Eva | Henry nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | interrupt | gerund | Dear Eva not said here | Henry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | our children | lawful 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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