Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 18
"Why do you disturb me at this hour, Alice?" inquired her mistress, who struggled to conceal her emotion. "
Who acts: you, mistress, Alice · What happens: disturb, inquire, struggle, conceal, emote · To what, where: mistress, emotion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, mistress, Alice), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 disturb | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 disturb | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 disturb | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 disturb | nsubj |
| 5 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 disturb | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 disturb | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Alice | punct |
| 11 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 disturb | vocative |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 disturb | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 disturb | punct |
| 14 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inquired | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 struggled | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 struggled | nsubj |
| 19 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 mistress | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 conceal | mark |
| 21 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 struggled | xcomp |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 emotion | nmod:poss |
| 23 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 conceal | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 inquired | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb in a quote | present · do-support | you | Alice's mistress = mistress | hour | Alice vocative | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Alice's mistress | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | struggle | past | Alice's mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | conceal | to-infinitive | Alice's mistress not said here | Alice's emotion | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Patient | ||||
| 5 | emote | Alice | nom emotion «feeling 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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