Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 120

Maria sent authorised messengers to the convent of Gandersheim, the coffin bearing Eva's name was broken open, and lo! a wooden figure with wax mask and hands!

Who acts: Maria, coffin, Eva · What happens: send, bear, break, name · To what, where: authorised messengers, convent, name

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maria, coffin, Eva), 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	Maria	Maria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	authorised	authorised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 messengers	amod
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 convent	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 convent	det
7	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Gandersheim	case
9	Gandersheim	Gandersheim	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 convent	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 coffin	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 coffin	det
12	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Gandersheim	appos
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 coffin	acl
14	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 name	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Eva	case
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broken	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 broken	aux:pass
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bearing	ccomp
19	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 broken	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 figure	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 figure	cc
22	lo	lo	INTJ	_	26 figure	discourse
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 lo	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 figure	det
25	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 figure	amod
26	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 mask	case
28	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mask	compound
29	mask	mask	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 figure	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hands	cc
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mask	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	Maria	authorised messengers	the convent of Gandersheim	a wooden figure with wax mask and hands obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to convent=Destination
2	bear	gerund	the coffin not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	break	past · passive		Eva's name		open property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	name		Eva				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 120