Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 88
But the maiden, pale with terror, exclaimed: "What! thou will'st face the Terrible? plunge thyself into certain destruction, and me into fresh despair?"
Who acts: maiden, thou · What happens: exclaim, face · To what, where: plunge, certain destruction · 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 (maiden, thou), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 exclaimed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 exclaimed | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pale | punct |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 terror | case |
| 7 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pale | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 What | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 face | punct |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 face | nsubj |
| 15 | will'st | will' | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 face | amod |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 What | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Terrible | det |
| 18 | Terrible | Terrible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 face | appos |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 plunge | punct |
| 20 | plunge | plunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 21 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 20 plunge | appos |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 destruction | case |
| 23 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 destruction | amod |
| 24 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 me | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 me | cc |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 despair | case |
| 29 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 despair | amod |
| 30 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | maiden | plunge | certain destruction | into fresh despair; me obl; What obj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||
| 2 | face in a quote | thou | the Terrible appos | 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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