Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 110
Duchess Maria, softened to hear of the lady Eva's death, sends members of her Court to attend the funeral.
Who acts: Duchess, Eva · What happens: soften, hear, send, attend, die · To what, where: members, funeral
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 (Duchess, Eva), 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 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 softened | nsubj |
| 2 | Maria | Maria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Duchess | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Duchess | punct |
| 4 | softened | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hear | mark |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 softened | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lady | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | obl |
| 10 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 death | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Eva | case |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sends | punct |
| 14 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 softened | conj |
| 15 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sends | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Court | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Court | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 members | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 attend | mark |
| 20 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sends | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 funeral | det |
| 22 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attend | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 softened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soften | past | Duchess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear | to-infinitive | Duchess not said here | of the lady Eva's death | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | send | present | Duchess not said here | members of lady's Court | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent member=Theme | ||||
| 4 | attend | to-infinitive | Duchess not said here | the funeral | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme funeral=Goal | ||||
| 5 | die | Eva | nom death «event 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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