Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 134
Seeing Eva seated, and not springing up as usual to welcome him, he supposed she had fallen asleep--and so she had; but a sight of her face revealed the dreadful truth.
Who acts: Eva, Henry, sight · What happens: see, seat, not spring up, welcome, suppose, fall · To what, where: Henry, dreadful truth, face
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, Henry, sight), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seated | advcl |
| 2 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 springing | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 springing | cc |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 springing | advmod |
| 7 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seated | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 springing | compound:prt |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 springing | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 welcome | mark |
| 12 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 springing | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 welcome | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 supposed | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 supposed | nsubj |
| 16 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fallen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fallen | aux |
| 19 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 supposed | xcomp |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fallen | xcomp |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 had | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 had | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 supposed | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 revealed | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 revealed | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sight | det |
| 29 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 revealed | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 face | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 face | nmod:poss |
| 32 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sight | nmod |
| 33 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 truth | det |
| 35 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 truth | amod |
| 36 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 revealed | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Eva not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | seat | past | Eva | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | not spring up | gerund | Eva not said here | as usual | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | welcome | to-infinitive | Eva not said here | Henry | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | suppose | past | Henry | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | fall | past · perfect | Eva | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | past | Eva | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | reveal | past | a sight of Eva's face | the dreadful truth | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic | ||||
| 9 | sight | Eva's face | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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