Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 53
But the world will discover our dreadful secret, the Duchess and her powerful father will complain to Kaiser and Pope, your visits will be forbidden--and what will become of me and my boy?"
Who acts: world, powerful father, your · What happens: discover, complain, forbid, become, visit · To what, where: dreadful secret, Kaiser, visits
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 (world, powerful father, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 discover | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 world | det |
| 3 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 discover | aux |
| 5 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 secret | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 secret | amod |
| 8 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 discover | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Duchess | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Duchess | det |
| 11 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 secret | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 complain | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 father | amod |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 complain | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 complain | aux |
| 17 | complain | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 discover | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Kaiser | case |
| 19 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 complain | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Pope | cc |
| 21 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Kaiser | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 forbidden | punct |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 visits | nmod:poss |
| 24 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 forbidden | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 forbidden | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 forbidden | aux:pass |
| 27 | forbidden | forbid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 complain | advcl |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 become | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 become | cc |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 become | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 become | aux |
| 32 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 discover | parataxis |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 become | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 boy | cc |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 boy | nmod:poss |
| 37 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 me | conj |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 discover | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 discover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | future | the world | our dreadful secret | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | ||||
| 2 | complain speech: other | future | world's powerful father | Kaiser and Pope | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kaiser=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | forbid | future · passive | your visits | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | future | of me; what nsubj | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | visit | your | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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