Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 120
Finally the coffin is lowered; they are about to close it for ever, when Alice, before the Abbess or the two priests, who alone knew the truth, can prevent her, rushes forward with a cry of agony and kisses the cold hands in her sorrow.
Who acts: sister, Alice, agony · What happens: lower, be, know, prevent, rush, kiss · To what, where: coffin, truth, Alice, cold hands, sorrow
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 (sister, Alice, agony), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 lowered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coffin | det |
| 3 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lowered | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lowered | aux:pass |
| 5 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 prevent | advcl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 close | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 close | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 close | cop |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 close | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 close | mark |
| 11 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lowered | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 close | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 ever | case |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 close | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 knew | advmod |
| 17 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Abbess | punct |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 Abbess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Abbess | det |
| 21 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Alice | appos |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 priests | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 priests | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 priests | nummod |
| 25 | priests | priest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Alice | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 29 knew | advmod |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 close | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 truth | det |
| 31 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knew | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lowered | punct |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 prevent | aux |
| 34 | prevent | prevent | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 prevent | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 rushes | punct |
| 37 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 prevent | parataxis |
| 38 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 37 rushes | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 cry | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 cry | det |
| 41 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rushes | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 agony | case |
| 43 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 cry | nmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 kisses | cc |
| 45 | kisses | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 rushes | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 hands | det |
| 47 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 hands | amod |
| 48 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 kisses | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 sorrow | case |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 51 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 kisses | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | present · passive | the coffin | finally property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | sister | coffin obj; about, close property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | Alice or the two priests | the truth | who nsubj; alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | prevent | can | Alice | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme | |||||
| 5 | rush | present | with a cry of agony; forward property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with cry=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | kiss | present | the cold hands | Alice's sorrow | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | cry | agony | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | sorrow | Alice | nom sorrow «feeling 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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