Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 29
Alice did not tell her of the Court gossip she had overheard, and that grief and pain drove her to the convent.
Who acts: Alice, grief · What happens: not tell, overhear, drive · To what, where: Duchess, Court gossip, Alice, convent · 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 (Alice, grief), 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 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gossip | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gossip | det |
| 8 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gossip | compound |
| 9 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 overheard | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 overheard | aux |
| 12 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 gossip | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drove | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drove | cc |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 grief | det |
| 16 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drove | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pain | cc |
| 18 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grief | conj |
| 19 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | conj |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drove | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 convent | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 convent | det |
| 23 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drove | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Alice | Duchess | of the Court gossip | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | overhear | past · perfect | Alice | the Court gossip not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gossip=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | that grief and pain | Alice | the convent | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme to convent=Trajectory |
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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