Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 2

Alice hastened to meet her, secure of her disguise, and told her she had a special message from the Master to the Lady Eva, and must speak with her alone.

Who acts: Alice · What happens: hasten, meet, tell, have, speak · To what, where: Alice, special message, Master · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hastened	nsubj
2	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 meet	mark
4	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hastened	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meet	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 secure	punct
7	secure	secure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 disguise	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 disguise	nmod:poss
10	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 secure	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hastened	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 told	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 message	det
18	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 message	amod
19	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 Master	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Master	det
22	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 message	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 Eva	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Eva	det
25	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Eva	compound
26	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Master	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 speak	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 speak	cc
29	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 speak	aux
30	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hastened	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 speak	obl
33	alone	alone	ADV	_	30 speak	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	Alice					tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive	Alice not said here	Alice			secure of Alice's disguise obl	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	Alice not said here		Alice			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	past	Alice	a special message		the Master to the Lady Eva		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient
5	speak speech: other	must	Alice not said here				with Alice; alone property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with she=Co-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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 2