Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 41
"My darling Eva, put away these harrowing thoughts; they are shortening your precious life."
Who acts: darling Eva, thoughts · What happens: put away, harrow, shorten · To what, where: harrowing thoughts, precious life
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 (darling Eva, thoughts), 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 put | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Eva | nmod:poss |
| 3 | darling | darling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Eva | amod |
| 4 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Eva | punct |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 thoughts | det |
| 9 | harrowing | harrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 thoughts | amod |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 shortening | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 shortening | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 shortening | aux |
| 14 | shortening | shorten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 put | advcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 life | amod |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shortening | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put away in a quote | infinitive | My darling Eva | this harrowing thoughts | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thought=Goal | |||
| 2 | harrow in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | shorten in a quote | present · progressive | thoughts = thought | your precious life | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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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