Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 34
"Who are you?" cried the terrified Eva, springing from her seat. "
Who acts: you · What happens: be, cry, spring · To what, where: terrified Eva, seat · 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 (you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Eva | det |
| 9 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Eva | amod |
| 10 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 springing | punct |
| 12 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 seat | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 seat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 springing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 springing | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 springing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the terrified Eva | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eva=Topic | |||||
| 3 | spring | gerund | Eva's seat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory |
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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