Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 1
Henry had no sympathy for prayers and church-going, neglected his pale, youthful wife, seldom visiting the wing of the gloomy old castle she occupied except when etiquette demanded his presence.
Who acts: Henry, wife, etiquette · What happens: have, go, neglect, visit, occupy, demand · To what, where: sympathy, church, pale youthful wife, wing, gloomy old castle, presence
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, wife, etiquette), 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 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sympathy | det |
| 4 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 prayers | case |
| 6 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sympathy | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 going | cc |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 church | punct |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 prayers | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 neglected | punct |
| 12 | neglected | neglect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wife | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pale | punct |
| 16 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wife | amod |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neglected | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 visiting | punct |
| 19 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 20 visiting | advmod |
| 20 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 neglected | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wing | det |
| 22 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 visiting | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 castle | det |
| 25 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 castle | amod |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 castle | amod |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wing | nmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 occupied | nsubj |
| 29 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 castle | acl:relcl |
| 30 | except | except | ADP | _ | 33 demanded | mark |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 demanded | advmod |
| 32 | etiquette | etiquette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 demanded | nsubj |
| 33 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 occupied | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 presence | nmod:poss |
| 35 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 demanded | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Henry | no sympathy | for prayers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Patient | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | Henry not said here | church | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | neglect | past | Henry not said here | Henry's pale youthful wife | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | ||||
| 4 | visit | gerund | Henry not said here | the wing of the gloomy old castle | seldom property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | occupy | past | wife | the gloomy old castle not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus castle=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | demand speech: request | past | etiquette | Henry's presence | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Precondition |
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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