Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 15
The old nurse Magda had just left her beloved young mistress, and Eva held the portrait in her hand, while a tumult of emotions shook her heart.
Who acts: Eva, tumult · What happens: leave, hold, shake · To what, where: old nurse, portrait, hand, heart
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 (Eva, tumult), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nurse | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nurse | amod |
| 3 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Magda | Magda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 nurse | appos |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 left | advmod |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mistress | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mistress | amod |
| 11 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 left | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 14 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 left | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 portrait | det |
| 17 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 portrait | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shook | punct |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 shook | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tumult | det |
| 24 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shook | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 emotions | case |
| 26 | emotions | emotion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tumult | nmod |
| 27 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 held | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shook | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the old nurse | Magda's beloved young mistress obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme mistress=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Eva | the portrait | mistress's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | shake | past | a tumult of emotions | mistress's heart | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
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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