Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 68
Their conversation was interrupted by the entrance of the little Eitel Henry, a princely boy, who inherited his mother's striking beauty, his long brown curls, falling over his shoulders.
Who acts: entrance, princely boy, persons · What happens: interrupt, inherit, strike, fall, converse · To what, where: conversation, striking beauty, shoulders
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 (entrance, princely boy, persons), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 2 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 interrupted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 interrupted | aux:pass |
| 4 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 entrance | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 entrance | det |
| 7 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 interrupted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Eitel | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Eitel | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Eitel | amod |
| 11 | Eitel | Eitel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 entrance | nmod |
| 12 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Eitel | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Eitel | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inherited | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 inherited | nsubj |
| 19 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 boy | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 mother | case |
| 23 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 beauty | amod |
| 24 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inherited | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 curls | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 curls | nmod:poss |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 curls | amod |
| 28 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 curls | amod |
| 29 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 beauty | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 falling | punct |
| 31 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 inherited | advcl |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 shoulders | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 34 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 falling | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 interrupted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | past · passive | the entrance of the little Eitel | persons's conversation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inherit | past | a princely boy | boy's mother's striking beauty and boy's long brown curls | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fall | gerund | a princely boy not said here | boy's shoulders | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location | ||||
| 5 | converse | persons = person | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: 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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