Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 81
Move me nearer the window, that I may look once more on the park I love so well."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: move, look, love · To what, where: me, park
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 (you, 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 | Move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Move | obj |
| 3 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 window | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 window | det |
| 5 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Move | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 look | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | aux |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Move | conj |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 look | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 park | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 park | det |
| 15 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | obl |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 love | nsubj |
| 17 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 love | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Move | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Move | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | imperative | you not said here | me | the nearer window obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme i=Result | |||
| 2 | look | may | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | love | present | I | the park | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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