Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 79
At last one of the group approaches the Earl in the centre of the hall, and cries: "You are in haste to announce the betrothal and wedding-day.
Who acts: You · What happens: approach, cry, be, announce · To what, where: Earl, centre, haste, betrothal · 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 (You), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 approaches | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 group | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Earl | det |
| 9 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 approaches | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 centre | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 centre | det |
| 12 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 approaches | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 centre | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cries | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cries | cc |
| 18 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 approaches | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 haste | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 haste | punct |
| 21 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 haste | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 haste | cop |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 haste | case |
| 24 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cries | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 announce | mark |
| 26 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 haste | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 betrothal | det |
| 28 | betrothal | betrothal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 announce | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 day | cc |
| 30 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 day | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 wedding | punct |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 betrothal | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 approaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | present | the Earl | the centre of the hall | at last one of the group | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earl=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | You | haste | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | announce speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | the betrothal and wedding day | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent betrothal=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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