Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 56

My own mother did not recognise me," and Alice threw off hump and wig, and stood before Eva, a tall, well-formed girl, nearly her own age.

Who acts: own mother, Alice · What happens: not recognise, throw off, stand, form · To what, where: me, hump, own age, Eva

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 (own mother, 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recognise	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recognise	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 recognise	advmod
6	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 recognise	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 threw	cc
11	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recognise	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 threw	compound:prt
14	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wig	cc
16	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hump	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 recognise	conj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 Eva	case
21	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tall	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tall	det
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Eva	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 girl	punct
26	well	well	INTJ	_	29 girl	discourse
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 well	punct
28	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 girl	amod
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Eva	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 age	punct
31	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	34 age	advmod
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 age	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 age	amod
34	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stood	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 recognise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not recognise	past · do-support	My own mother	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
2	throw off in a quote	past	Alice	hump and wig		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hump=Theme
3	stand in a quote	past	My own mother not said here	Alice's own age	Eva	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before eva=Location
4	form in a quote	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 56

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Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 56