Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 132
As the result of these soliloquies, Alice informs the Abbess she must relinquish her plan of becoming a nun, at least for the present, and go to her mother, who must be in great distress at the sudden loss of her nursling.
Who acts: Alice, plan, mother · What happens: inform, relinquish, become, go, be, result · To what, where: Abbess, plan, least, nun, great distress, soliloquies
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 (Alice, plan, mother), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 result | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 result | det |
| 3 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 informs | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 soliloquies | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 soliloquies | det |
| 6 | soliloquies | soliloquy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 result | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 result | punct |
| 8 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 informs | nsubj |
| 9 | informs | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Abbess | det |
| 11 | Abbess | Abbess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 informs | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 relinquish | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 relinquish | aux |
| 14 | relinquish | relinquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 informs | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 plan | nmod:poss |
| 16 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 relinquish | obj |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 becoming | mark |
| 18 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 plan | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 nun | det |
| 20 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 becoming | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 least | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 least | case |
| 23 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 relinquish | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 present | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 present | det |
| 26 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 least | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 go | cc |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 informs | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 distress | punct |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 distress | nsubj |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 distress | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 distress | cop |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 distress | case |
| 38 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 distress | amod |
| 39 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mother | appos |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 loss | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 loss | det |
| 42 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 loss | amod |
| 43 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 distress | nmod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 nursling | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 nursling | nmod:poss |
| 46 | nursling | nursling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 loss | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 informs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | present | Alice | the Abbess | as the result of this soliloquies | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abbess=Recipient | |||
| 2 | relinquish | must | Alice | Alice's plan | least for the present | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent plan=Theme | |||
| 3 | become | gerund | Alice's plan not said here | a nun | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | to Alice's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | is | must | Alice's mother | great distress | at the sudden loss of Alice's nursling | tree rules | |||
| 6 | result | this soliloquies | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | plan | Alice | nom plan «cognition 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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