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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 114

The face of the dead is of a wondrous beauty, the long brown curls fall over the breast, the small white hands, marked with plague-spots, are crossed above the still, cold heart.

Who acts: face, long brown curls · What happens: be, fall, mark, cross · To what, where: small white hands, breast, cold heart

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 (face, long brown curls), 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

detnsubjcasedetnmodcopcasedetamodpunctdetamodamodnsubjparataxiscasedetoblpunctdetamodamodoblpunctaclcasecompoundpunctoblpunctaux:passconjcasedetadvmodpunctamodoblpunctrootTheDETfaceNOUNofADPtheDETdeadADJisAUXofADPaDETwondrousADJbeautyNOUN,PUNCTtheDETlongADJbrownADJcurlsNOUNfallVERBoverADPtheDETbreastNOUN,PUNCTtheDETsmallADJwhiteADJhandsNOUN,PUNCTmarkedVERBwithADPplagueNOUN-PUNCTspotsNOUN,PUNCTareAUXcrossedVERBaboveADPtheDETstillADV,PUNCTcoldADJheartNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 facedet
2facefaceNOUNNumber=Sing10 beautynsubj
3ofofADP_5 deadcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 deaddet
5deaddeadADJDegree=Pos2 facenmod
6isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 beautycop
7ofofADP_10 beautycase
8aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 beautydet
9wondrouswondrousADJDegree=Pos10 beautyamod
10beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
11,,PUNCT_16 fallpunct
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 curlsdet
13longlongADJDegree=Pos15 curlsamod
14brownbrownADJDegree=Pos15 curlsamod
15curlscurlNOUNNumber=Plur16 fallnsubj
16fallfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin10 beautyparataxis
17overoverADP_19 breastcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 breastdet
19breastbreastNOUNNumber=Sing16 fallobl
20,,PUNCT_24 handspunct
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 handsdet
22smallsmallADJDegree=Pos24 handsamod
23whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos24 handsamod
24handshandNOUNNumber=Plur16 fallobl
25,,PUNCT_26 markedpunct
26markedmarkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 handsacl
27withwithADP_30 spotscase
28plagueplagueNOUNNumber=Sing30 spotscompound
29--PUNCT_28 plaguepunct
30spotsspotNOUNNumber=Plur26 markedobl
31,,PUNCT_33 crossedpunct
32arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 crossedaux:pass
33crossedcrossVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 fallconj
34aboveaboveADP_39 heartcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 heartdet
36stillstillADV_38 coldadvmod
37,,PUNCT_36 stillpunct
38coldcoldADJDegree=Pos39 heartamod
39heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing33 crossedobl
40..PUNCT_10 beautypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentthe face of the deadof a wondrous beautytree rules
2fallpresentthe long brown curlsthe small white handsthe breastvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over breast=Location
3markparticiplethe small white hands not said herewith plague spotsvn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with spot=Theme
4crosspresent · passivethe long brown curls not said herethe cold heartvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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