Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 50

Probably Henry's own reflections were not of the most agreeable and consoling character, as he was thus compelled to recall his injustice and sin in his neglect of the Duchess.

Who acts: own reflections, boy · What happens: not be, console, compel, recall, neglect · To what, where: character, boy, injustice, neglect, 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 (own reflections, boy), 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	Probably	probably	ADV	_	5 reflections	advmod
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reflections	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Henry	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reflections	amod
5	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 agreeable	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 agreeable	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 agreeable	advmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 agreeable	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 agreeable	det
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 agreeable	advmod
11	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 consoling	cc
13	consoling	console	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 agreeable	conj
14	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 consoling	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 compelled	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 compelled	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 compelled	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 compelled	aux:pass
19	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 compelled	advmod
20	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 agreeable	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 recall	mark
22	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 compelled	advcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 injustice	nmod:poss
24	injustice	injustice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 recall	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sin	cc
26	sin	sin	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 injustice	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 neglect	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 neglect	nmod:poss
29	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 recall	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Duchess	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Duchess	det
32	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 neglect	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 agreeable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Henry's own reflections			agreeable property	tree rules
2	console	gerund	Henry's own reflections not said here	character			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus character=Experiencer
3	compel	past · passive		boy		thus property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	recall	to-infinitive		boy's injustice and sin	boy's neglect of the Duchess		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Theme
5	neglect		boy	the Duchess			nom neglect «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 50

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 50