Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 35
Eva sighed, and replied, rising and laying her hand on Alice's shoulder, at the same time glancing nervously at the portrait of Henry the Lion, "I am not happy either, dear Alice.
Who acts: Eva, same time, Alice · What happens: sigh, reply, rise, lay, glance, not be · To what, where: hand, shoulder, Henry · 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 (Eva, same time, 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 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sighed | nsubj |
| 2 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 replied | cc |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sighed | parataxis |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rising | punct |
| 7 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laying | cc |
| 9 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rising | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shoulder | case |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Alice | case |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | obl |
| 21 | glancing | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 time | acl |
| 22 | nervously | nervously | ADV | _ | 21 glancing | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 portrait | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 portrait | det |
| 25 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glancing | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Henry | case |
| 27 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 portrait | nmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lion | det |
| 29 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Henry | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 happy | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 happy | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 happy | nsubj |
| 33 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 happy | cop |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 happy | advmod |
| 35 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sighed | parataxis |
| 36 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 35 happy | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Alice | punct |
| 38 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Alice | amod |
| 39 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 happy | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Eva | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | lay | gerund | pain's hand | Alice's shoulder | time | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 5 | glance | gerund | the same time not said here | at the portrait of Henry; nervously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at portrait=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not is in a quote | present | Alice | dear Alice conj; either, happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | portray | Henry | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=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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