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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

nmod:possnsubj:passaux:passcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodflatpunctdetamodappospunctnsubjacl:relclnmod:possnmod:posscaseamodobjpunctnmod:possamodamodconjpunctadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheirPRONconversationNOUNwasAUXinterruptedVERBbyADPtheDETentranceNOUNofADPtheDETlittleADJEitelPROPNHenryPROPN,PUNCTaDETprincelyADJboyNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONinheritedVERBhisPRONmotherNOUN'sPARTstrikingVERBbeautyNOUN,PUNCThisPRONlongADJbrownADJcurlsNOUN,PUNCTfallingVERBoverADPhisPRONshouldersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 conversationnmod:poss
2conversationconversationNOUNNumber=Sing4 interruptednsubj:pass
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 interruptedaux:pass
4interruptedinterruptVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5bybyADP_7 entrancecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 entrancedet
7entranceentranceNOUNNumber=Sing4 interruptedobl
8ofofADP_11 Eitelcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Eiteldet
10littlelittleADJDegree=Pos11 Eitelamod
11EitelEitelPROPNNumber=Sing7 entrancenmod
12HenryHenryPROPNNumber=Sing11 Eitelflat
13,,PUNCT_16 boypunct
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 boydet
15princelyprincelyADJDegree=Pos16 boyamod
16boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing11 Eitelappos
17,,PUNCT_19 inheritedpunct
18whowhoPRONPronType=Rel19 inheritednsubj
19inheritedinheritVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 boyacl:relcl
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 mothernmod:poss
21mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing24 beautynmod:poss
22's'sPART_21 mothercase
23strikingstrikeVERBVerbForm=Ger24 beautyamod
24beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing19 inheritedobj
25,,PUNCT_29 curlspunct
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 curlsnmod:poss
27longlongADJDegree=Pos29 curlsamod
28brownbrownADJDegree=Pos29 curlsamod
29curlscurlNOUNNumber=Plur24 beautyconj
30,,PUNCT_31 fallingpunct
31fallingfallVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 inheritedadvcl
32overoverADP_34 shoulderscase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 shouldersnmod:poss
34shouldersshoulderNOUNNumber=Plur31 fallingobl
35..PUNCT_4 interruptedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1interruptpast · passivethe entrance of the little Eitelpersons's conversationtree rules
2inheritpasta princely boyboy's mother's striking beauty and boy's long brown curlsvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme
3strikegerundvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4fallgerunda princely boy not said hereboy's shouldersvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location
5conversepersons = personnom 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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