Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 2
In this deplorable state of things Eva von Trotta appeared at Court.
What happens: appear · To what, where: deplorable state
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 state | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 state | det |
| 3 | deplorable | deplorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 state | amod |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 state | nmod |
| 7 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 things | appos |
| 8 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 7 Eva | flat |
| 9 | Trotta | Trotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Eva | flat |
| 10 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Court | case |
| 12 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 appeared | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | this deplorable state of things | at Court | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location |
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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