Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 5
"I am one who knows all the secret, and that the beautiful maid of honour, Eva von Trotta, does not lie in her coffin.
Who acts: Alice · What happens: be, know, not lie · To what, where: one, secret, coffin
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 one | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | cop |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 knows | nsubj |
| 6 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 secret | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 secret | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knows | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lie | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lie | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 maid | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maid | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maid | amod |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lie | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 honour | case |
| 17 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Eva | punct |
| 19 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | appos |
| 20 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 19 Eva | flat |
| 21 | Trotta | Trotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Eva | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 maid | punct |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lie | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 lie | advmod |
| 25 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 one | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 coffin | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 28 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lie | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Alice | one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | all secret | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not lie in a quote | present · do-support | Alice not said here | Eva's coffin | the beautiful maid of honour advcl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=Location |
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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