Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 17
Arrived on the balcony she paused and gazed at the graceful but passive figure half reclining in a fauteuil in full view of the mountains.
Who acts: Alice, graceful figure half · What happens: arrive, pause, gaze, recline, view · To what, where: balcony, fauteuil, mountains
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 (Alice, graceful figure half), 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 | Arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 paused | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 balcony | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 balcony | det |
| 4 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Arrived | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 paused | nsubj |
| 6 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gazed | cc |
| 8 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 paused | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 half | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 half | det |
| 11 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 half | amod |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 passive | cc |
| 13 | passive | passive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 graceful | conj |
| 14 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 half | compound |
| 15 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 gazed | obl |
| 16 | reclining | recline | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 half | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fauteuil | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fauteuil | det |
| 19 | fauteuil | fauteuil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reclining | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 view | case |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 view | amod |
| 22 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reclining | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mountains | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mountains | det |
| 25 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 view | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | participle | Alice not said here | the balcony | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pause | past | Alice | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past | Alice not said here | at the graceful figure half | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at half=Theme | ||||
| 4 | recline | gerund | the graceful figure half not said here | a fauteuil | in full view of the mountains | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fauteuil=Location | |||
| 5 | view | the mountains | nom view «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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