Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 93
The Marshal did as his dying wife had counselled, and kept Eva in the parental castle till her sixteenth summer.
Who acts: Marshal, dying wife · What happens: do, die, counsell, keep · To what, where: Eva, parental castle
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 (Marshal, dying wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Marshal | det |
| 2 | Marshal | Marshal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 counselled | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wife | amod |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counselled | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 counselled | aux |
| 9 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kept | cc |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 13 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 16 | parental | parental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 castle | amod |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 summer | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 summer | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sixteenth | sixteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 summer | amod |
| 21 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Marshal | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | counsell | past · perfect | husband's dying wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep | past | the Marshal not said here | Eva | the parental castle | summer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eva=Theme in castle=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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