Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 49

I shall perish eternally, and my noble boy will grow up to curse my memory;" and leaning her head on Henry's breast, she wept bitterly.

Who acts: I, noble boy, last morning, Henry · What happens: perish, grow up, curse, lean, weep · To what, where: memory, head, breast

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, noble boy, last morning, Henry), 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 perish	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 perish	aux
3	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eternally	eternally	ADV	_	3 perish	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grow	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grow	cc
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boy	nmod:poss
8	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grow	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 grow	aux
11	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 perish	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 grow	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 curse	mark
14	curse	curse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 grow	advcl
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 memory	nmod:poss
16	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 curse	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 perish	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 perish	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leaning	cc
20	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 perish	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaning	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 breast	case
24	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 breast	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Henry	case
26	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaning	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wept	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wept	nsubj
29	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 perish	conj
30	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	29 wept	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 perish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perish	shall	I			eternally property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	grow up	future	my noble boy				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	curse	to-infinitive	my noble boy not said here	my memory			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme
4	lean in a quote	gerund	last morning in the antechamber = morning not said here	Henry's head	Henry's breast		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on breast=Destination
5	weep in a quote	past	Henry			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 49

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 49