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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 face | det |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beauty | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 dead | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dead | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 face | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beauty | cop |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 beauty | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beauty | det |
| 9 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beauty | amod |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fall | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 curls | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 curls | amod |
| 14 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 curls | amod |
| 15 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fall | nsubj |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beauty | parataxis |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 breast | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 breast | det |
| 19 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hands | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hands | det |
| 22 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hands | amod |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hands | amod |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fall | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 marked | punct |
| 26 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hands | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 spots | case |
| 28 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spots | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 plague | punct |
| 30 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 marked | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 crossed | punct |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 crossed | aux:pass |
| 33 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fall | conj |
| 34 | above | above | ADP | _ | 39 heart | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 heart | det |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 38 cold | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 still | punct |
| 38 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 heart | amod |
| 39 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 crossed | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beauty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the face of the dead | of a wondrous beauty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | the long brown curls | the small white hands | the breast | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over breast=Location | |||
| 3 | mark | participle | the small white hands not said here | with plague spots | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cross | present · passive | the long brown curls not said here | the cold heart | vn 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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