Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 136
The empty flask lay on the writing-table beside her; near it a note addressed to himself.
Who acts: empty flask · What happens: lie, address · To what, where: note, writing table, Henry
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 (empty flask), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flask | det |
| 2 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flask | amod |
| 3 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 7 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 table | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 writing | punct |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 table | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 note | det |
| 16 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obj |
| 17 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 note | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 addressed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the empty flask | a note | the writing table beside Eva | near table | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme | ||
| 2 | address | participle | a note not said here | Henry | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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