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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 71

The two figures stood in the arbour, motionless as marble, while Maria hastened to send messengers immediately to her father and other princes, acquainting them of Henry's perfidy.

Who acts: two figures, Maria · What happens: stand, hasten, send, acquaint · To what, where: arbour, messengers, father

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 (two figures, Maria), 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

detnummodnsubjcasedetoblpunctamodcaseoblpunctmarknsubjconjmarkxcompobjadvmodcasenmod:possoblccamodconjpunctadvclobjcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctrootTheDETtwoNUMfiguresNOUNstoodVERBinADPtheDETarbourNOUN,PUNCTmotionlessADJasADPmarbleNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJMariaPROPNhastenedVERBtoPARTsendVERBmessengersNOUNimmediatelyADVtoADPherPRONfatherNOUNandCCONJotherADJprincesNOUN,PUNCTacquaintingVERBthemPRONofADPHenryPROPN'sPARTperfidyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 figuresdet
2twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 figuresnummod
3figuresfigureNOUNNumber=Plur4 stoodnsubj
4stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5ininADP_7 arbourcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 arbourdet
7arbourarbourNOUNNumber=Sing4 stoodobl
8,,PUNCT_9 motionlesspunct
9motionlessmotionlessADJDegree=Pos7 arbouramod
10asasADP_11 marblecase
11marblemarbleNOUNNumber=Sing9 motionlessobl
12,,PUNCT_15 hastenedpunct
13whilewhileSCONJ_15 hastenedmark
14MariaMariaPROPNNumber=Sing15 hastenednsubj
15hastenedhastenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 stoodconj
16totoPART_17 sendmark
17sendsendVERBVerbForm=Inf15 hastenedxcomp
18messengersmessengerNOUNNumber=Plur17 sendobj
19immediatelyimmediatelyADV_17 sendadvmod
20totoADP_22 fathercase
21herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 fathernmod:poss
22fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing17 sendobl
23andandCCONJ_25 princescc
24otherotherADJDegree=Pos25 princesamod
25princesprinceNOUNNumber=Plur22 fatherconj
26,,PUNCT_27 acquaintingpunct
27acquaintingacquaintVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 hastenedadvcl
28themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 acquaintingobj
29ofofADP_32 perfidycase
30HenryHenryPROPNNumber=Sing32 perfidynmod:poss
31's'sPART_30 Henrycase
32perfidyperfidyNOUNNumber=Sing27 acquaintingobl
33..PUNCT_4 stoodpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1standpastthe two figuresthe arbourvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arbour=Location
2hastenpastMariatree rules
3sendto-infinitiveMaria not said heremessengersMaria's father and other princesimmediately propertyvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to father=Destination
4acquaint speech: othergerundMaria not said heremessengers = messengerof Henry's perfidyvn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of perfidy=Topic

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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