Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 130
Then she sent for her children, wept over them, and gave her directions to Magda and Alice, and cut off Eitel's long curls that he might not be recognised, his resemblance to her with his long hair being so striking.
Who acts: Eva · What happens: send, weep, give, cut off, not recognise, strike · To what, where: directions, Eva, long curls, Eitel
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 children | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wept | punct |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 wept | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Magda | case |
| 17 | Magda | Magda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 directions | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Alice | cc |
| 19 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Magda | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cut | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cut | cc |
| 22 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 cut | compound:prt |
| 24 | Eitel | Eitel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 curls | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Eitel | case |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 curls | amod |
| 27 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cut | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 recognised | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 recognised | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 recognised | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 recognised | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 recognised | aux:pass |
| 33 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 curls | acl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 resemblance | punct |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 resemblance | nmod:poss |
| 36 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 curls | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 resemblance | nmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 hair | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 hair | nmod:poss |
| 41 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 hair | amod |
| 42 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 resemblance | nmod |
| 43 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 striking | nsubj |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 striking | advmod |
| 45 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 cut | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Eva | then | for Eva's children | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | weep | past | Eva not said here | over children = child | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Eva not said here | directions | Eva | to Magda and Alice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient direction=Theme | ||
| 4 | cut off | participle | Eitel's long curls and Eitel's resemblance to Eva with Eitel's long hair | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector curl=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not recognise | might · passive | Eitel | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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