Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 119
Only a few days ago she took leave of her foster-sister, and now she gazes on the dead!
Who acts: novice · What happens: take, gaze · To what, where: leave
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 (novice), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 days | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sister | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sister | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 foster | punct |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gazes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gazes | cc |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 gazes | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gazes | nsubj |
| 18 | gazes | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | parataxis |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 dead | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 dead | det |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gazes | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | novice | leave of novice's foster sister | ago property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | |||
| 2 | gaze | present | novice | now | on the dead | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on dead=Theme |
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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