Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 17
It was her foster-sister Alice, who was her favourite maid.
Who acts: portrait, foster sister · What happens: be · To what, where: foster sister, favourite maid
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 (portrait, foster sister), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sister | cop |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 4 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 foster | punct |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 maid | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 maid | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 maid | cop |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 maid | nmod:poss |
| 12 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 maid | amod |
| 13 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | portrait | tumult's foster sister and tumult's favourite maid | tumult nmod:poss; Alice appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | tumult's foster sister and tumult's favourite maid | tumult's favourite maid | tumult nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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