Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 75
"What is to become of me?" at last exclaimed Eva, starting from the stupor of terror the sudden appearance of the Duchess had caused. "
Who acts: Eva, terror · What happens: be, exclaim, start, cause · To what, where: last, stupor, sudden appearance · 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 (Eva, terror), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 become | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 become | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 become | mark |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 become | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obl |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 starting | punct |
| 15 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 exclaimed | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 stupor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stupor | det |
| 18 | stupor | stupor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 starting | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 terror | case |
| 20 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stupor | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 appearance | det |
| 22 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 appearance | amod |
| 23 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Duchess | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Duchess | det |
| 26 | Duchess | Duchess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 appearance | nmod |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 caused | aux |
| 28 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 terror | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | of Eva; What nsubj; become property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Eva | last | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | start | gerund | Eva not said here | the stupor of terror | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | cause | past · perfect · passive | terror not said here | the sudden appearance of the Duchess | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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