Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 68
The young Countess looks out of a Gothic window into the court, turns pale and trembles, as her straining eyes gaze upon the entering knight.
Who acts: young Countess, straining eyes · What happens: look out, turn, gaze · To what, where: Gothic window, court
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 (young Countess, straining eyes), 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 | 3 Countess | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Countess | amod |
| 3 | Countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 8 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 window | amod |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turns | punct |
| 14 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looks | parataxis |
| 15 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 turns | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 trembles | cc |
| 17 | trembles | tremble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pale | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gaze | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 gaze | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | straining | straining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | compound |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gaze | nsubj |
| 23 | gaze | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 turns | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 knight | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 knight | det |
| 26 | entering | entering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knight | compound |
| 27 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gaze | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | present | the young Countess | a Gothic window | the court | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | present | pale property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gaze | present | Countess's straining eyes | upon the entering knight | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon knight=Theme |
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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