Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 11
Horrified, she at once informs the Duchess of this proposed rendezvous, and persuades her to accompany her in disguise to the arbour at the appointed hour, where, concealed behind the thick foliage, she might learn what was best to be done.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: horrify, inform, propose, persuade, accompany, appoint · To what, where: Duchess, mistress, disguise, thick foliage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mistress), 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 | Horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 informs | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Horrified | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 informs | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 informs | obl |
| 6 | informs | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duchess | det |
| 8 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 informs | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rendezvous | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 rendezvous | det |
| 11 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rendezvous | amod |
| 12 | rendezvous | rendezvous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Duchess | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 persuades | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 persuades | cc |
| 15 | persuades | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 informs | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 persuades | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 accompany | mark |
| 18 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 persuades | xcomp |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 accompany | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 disguise | case |
| 21 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompany | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 arbour | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 arbour | det |
| 24 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompany | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 hour | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hour | det |
| 27 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hour | amod |
| 28 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 accompany | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 where | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 concealed | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 concealed | punct |
| 32 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 hour | acl:relcl |
| 33 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 foliage | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 foliage | det |
| 35 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 foliage | amod |
| 36 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 concealed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 learn | punct |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 learn | nsubj |
| 39 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 learn | aux |
| 40 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 informs | conj |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 best | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 best | cop |
| 43 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 learn | ccomp |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 done | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 done | aux:pass |
| 46 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 learn | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 informs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | participle | mistress not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | present | mistress | the Duchess of this proposed rendezvous | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent duchess=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | persuade | present | mistress not said here | mistress | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 5 | accompany | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | mistress | disguise | hour | to the arbour | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in disguise=Destination | |
| 6 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | conceal | participle | the thick foliage | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind foliage=Location | |||||
| 8 | learn | might | mistress | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is | past | what nsubj; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | do | to-infinitive · passive | mistress not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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