Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 12
Later on this same day Eva sat alone in her boudoir gazing at the portrait, an exquisite enamel set in diamonds.
Who acts: boudoir · What happens: sit, gaze, set · To what, where: boudoir, exquisite enamel, diamonds
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 (boudoir), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sat | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 6 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 day | appos |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 boudoir | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 boudoir | nmod:poss |
| 11 | boudoir | boudoir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 12 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 boudoir | acl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 portrait | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 portrait | det |
| 15 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gazing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enamel | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 enamel | det |
| 18 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 enamel | amod |
| 19 | enamel | enamel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boudoir | conj |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 enamel | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 diamonds | case |
| 22 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 set | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | mistress's boudoir and a exquisite enamel | day | alone, late property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in boudoir=Location | |||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | mistress's boudoir and a exquisite enamel not said here | at the portrait | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at portrait=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | participle | a exquisite enamel not said here | diamonds | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in diamond=Destination |
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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