Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 122
Conscious of the danger to herself if she betrays her discovery, she weeps and sobs louder than ever, and must be almost forcibly removed.
Who acts: Conscious · What happens: betray, weep, sob, remove, discover · To what, where: discovery
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 (Conscious), 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 | Conscious | Conscious | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 betrays | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 danger | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 danger | det |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Conscious | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 herself | case |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 danger | nmod |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 betrays | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 betrays | nsubj |
| 9 | betrays | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 betrays | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 weeps | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 weeps | nsubj |
| 14 | weeps | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 betrays | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sobs | cc |
| 16 | sobs | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 weeps | conj |
| 17 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 sobs | xcomp |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 ever | case |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 louder | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 removed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 removed | cc |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 removed | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 removed | aux:pass |
| 24 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 25 forcibly | advmod |
| 25 | forcibly | forcibly | ADV | _ | 26 removed | advmod |
| 26 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 betrays | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 betrays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | betray | present | Conscious of the danger to Conscious | Conscious's discovery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | present | Conscious | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sob | present | Conscious not said here | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remove | must · passive | Conscious of the danger to Conscious not said here | forcibly property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | discover | Conscious | nom discovery «act transitive»: 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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