Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 65
The object of the maiden seemed gained, but, alas! she knew not what anguish destiny had assigned her.
Who acts: object · What happens: seem, gain, not know, assign · To what, where: destiny · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (object), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 maiden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 object | nmod |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 alas | punct |
| 11 | alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 14 knew | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 alas | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seemed | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 knew | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 assigned | obj |
| 17 | anguish | anguish | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 assigned | aux |
| 18 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 assigned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 assigned | aux |
| 20 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 assigned | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the object of the maiden | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | gain | participle | the object of the maiden not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not know | past | object | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | assign | present · perfect · passive | destiny | what obj; object obj | 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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