Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 74

She proposes perhaps the most extraordinary plan that ever entered a human brain, and all the more astounding as coming from a girl of sixteen.

Who acts: Maria · What happens: propose, enter, come · To what, where: extraordinary plan

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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proposes	nsubj
2	proposes	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 plan	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 extraordinary	advmod
6	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proposes	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 entered	obj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 entered	advmod
10	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 brain	det
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brain	amod
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 astounding	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 astounding	cc
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 astounding	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 astounding	det
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 astounding	advmod
19	astounding	astounding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proposes	parataxis
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 coming	mark
21	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 astounding	advcl
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 girl	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 girl	det
24	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 coming	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 sixteen	case
26	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 girl	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 proposes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	propose	present	Maria	the extraordinary plan			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme
2	enter	past		the extraordinary plan	ever	a human brain obj	tree rules
3	come	gerund	Maria not said here			from a girl of sixteen	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from girl=Initial_Location

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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 74