Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 59

My noble Eitel[2] is noble in character as in name; he would never consent no more than I. But I live in constant terror of discovery."

Who acts: noble Eitel, Eitel, I · What happens: be, not consent, live · To what, where: character, more, constant terror

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 (noble Eitel, Eitel, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Eitel	nmod:poss
2	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Eitel	amod
3	Eitel	Eitel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 noble	nsubj
4	[	[	PUNCT	_	5 2	punct
5	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 Eitel	flat
6	]	]	PUNCT	_	5 2	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 noble	cop
8	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 character	case
10	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noble	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 name	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 name	case
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 character	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 consent	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 consent	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 consent	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 consent	advmod
18	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 noble	parataxis
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 more	advmod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 consent	obj
21	than	than	ADP	_	22 I.	case
22	I.	I.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 more	obl
23	But	but	CCONJ	_	25 live	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 live	nsubj
25	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 consent	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 terror	case
27	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 terror	amod
28	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 live	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 discovery	case
30	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 terror	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 noble	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 noble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	My noble Eitel		character as name	noble property	tree rules
2	not consent	would	Eitel	more than I.			tree rules
3	live	present	I		constant terror of discovery		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location

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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 59