Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 43
But Henry said carelessly, "The Duchess is coming, Fräulein von Trotta; I am only a minute in advance."
Who acts: Henry, Duchess · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: Fräulein, minute, advance · 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 (Henry, Duchess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 coming | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 coming | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Duchess | det |
| 8 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 coming | aux |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 said | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fräulein | punct |
| 12 | Fräulein | Fräulein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 coming | obl |
| 13 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 12 Fräulein | flat |
| 14 | Trotta | Trotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fräulein | flat |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 minute | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 minute | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 minute | cop |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 minute | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 minute | det |
| 20 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 advance | case |
| 22 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 minute | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 minute | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 minute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Henry | carelessly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the Duchess | Fräulein | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Henry | a minute | advance | tree rules |
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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