Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 43
When I recall the affection and confidence of the Duchess, and reflect on my base, false friendship, my face burns with pain and shame.
Who acts: I, face · What happens: recall, reflect, burn, confide · To what, where: affection, Duchess
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, face), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 recall | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 recall | nsubj |
| 3 | recall | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 burns | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 affection | det |
| 5 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recall | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 confidence | cc |
| 7 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affection | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Duchess | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Duchess | det |
| 10 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 confidence | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reflect | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reflect | cc |
| 13 | reflect | reflect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 recall | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 base | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 base | nmod:poss |
| 16 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reflect | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friendship | punct |
| 18 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 friendship | amod |
| 19 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 base | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recall | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burns | nsubj |
| 23 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pain | case |
| 25 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burns | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shame | cc |
| 27 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pain | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 burns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | present | I | the affection and confidence of the Duchess | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reflect | infinitive | I not said here | on my base and false friendship | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on base=Topic | ||||
| 3 | burn | present | my face | with pain and shame | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pain=Theme | ||||
| 4 | confide | the Duchess | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=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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