Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 28
Alice hesitated, for she was so moved at sight of her playmate and foster-sister, she could not command her voice to speak.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: hesitate, move, not command, speak, sight · To what, where: Alice, sight, voice, playmate · 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 hesitated | nsubj |
| 2 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 moved | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 moved | aux:pass |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 moved | advmod |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hesitated | parataxis |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 playmate | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 playmate | nmod:poss |
| 13 | playmate | playmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sister | cc |
| 15 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sister | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 foster | punct |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 playmate | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 command | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 command | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 command | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 command | advmod |
| 22 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 hesitated | conj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 voice | nmod:poss |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 command | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 speak | mark |
| 26 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 command | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hesitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | past | Alice | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | move | past · passive | Alice | sight of Alice's playmate and foster sister | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 3 | not command | could | Alice | Alice's voice | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alice not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sight | Alice's playmate and foster sister | 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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