Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 7

It was not the pale, pious Duchess who had so suddenly fascinated Henry, but the maid of honour, radiant in black Genoa velvet and silver spangles, into whose clear blue eyes Henry's brown ones looked so willingly.

Who acts: loveliness, pale pious Duchess · What happens: not be, fascinate, look · To what, where: pale pious Duchess, Henry

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 (loveliness, pale pious 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Duchess	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Duchess	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 Duchess	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Duchess	det
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Duchess	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pale	punct
7	pious	pious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Duchess	amod
8	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 looked	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fascinated	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fascinated	aux
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 fascinated	advmod
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 fascinated	advmod
13	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 Duchess	acl:relcl
14	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 fascinated	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 looked	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 looked	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maid	det
18	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 looked	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 honour	case
20	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 maid	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 radiant	punct
22	radiant	radiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 maid	appos
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 velvet	case
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 velvet	amod
25	Genoa	Genoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 velvet	compound
26	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 radiant	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spangles	cc
28	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spangles	compound
29	spangles	spangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 velvet	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 eyes	punct
31	into	into	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
32	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	35 eyes	nmod:poss
33	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
34	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 eyes	amod
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 radiant	conj
36	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 ones	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 Henry	case
38	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 ones	amod
39	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eyes	appos
40	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 willingly	advmod
42	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	40 looked	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	loveliness	the pale pious Duchess		tree rules
2	fascinate	past · perfect	the pale pious Duchess	Henry	suddenly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus henry=Experiencer
3	look	past	the pale pious Duchess		the maid of honour nsubj; willingly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 7

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 7