Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 19
Her face and hands are so white as to seem almost transparent; her curls fall in rich masses over her white silken robe; her blue eyes have a strange far-away look in them that strikes Alice to the heart.
Who acts: face, curls, blue eyes, that · What happens: be, seem, fall, have, look, strike · To what, where: rich masses, Alice
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 (face, curls, blue eyes, that), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 face | nmod:poss |
| 2 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 white | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hands | cc |
| 4 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 face | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 white | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 white | advmod |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 seem | mark |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seem | mark |
| 10 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 white | advcl |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 transparent | advmod |
| 12 | transparent | transparent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seem | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fall | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 curls | nmod:poss |
| 15 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fall | nsubj |
| 16 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 white | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 masses | case |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 masses | amod |
| 19 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fall | obl |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 24 robe | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 robe | nmod:poss |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 robe | amod |
| 23 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 robe | amod |
| 24 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fall | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyes | amod |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fall | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 strange | det |
| 31 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 look | advcl |
| 32 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 away | advmod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 far | punct |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 31 strange | advmod |
| 35 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | parataxis |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 look | obl |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 strikes | nsubj |
| 39 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 look | parataxis |
| 40 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 strikes | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 heart | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 heart | det |
| 43 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 strikes | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 white | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Eva's face and hands | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | to-infinitive | Eva's face and hands not said here | transparent property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | present | Eva's curls | rich masses | over Eva's white silken robe | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mass=Location | |||
| 4 | have | present | Eva's blue eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | infinitive | in eyes = eye | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in they=Theme | |||||
| 6 | strike | present | that | Alice | to the heart result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent alice=Patient to heart=Result |
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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