Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 39
You seem to me more like a friend than a servant, Alice; how can I do without you, my foster-sister?"
Who acts: You, I · What happens: seem, do · To what, where: me, foster sister
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, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 seem | obl |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 seem | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 more | obl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 servant | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 servant | det |
| 11 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Alice | punct |
| 13 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 servant | appos |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 do | advmod |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seem | conj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sister | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sister | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sister | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 foster | punct |
| 25 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 25 sister | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | You | me | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | can | I | my foster sister | without you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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