Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 89
Come, come; oh, listen to the voice of warning before it is too late," and Alice seized Eva's hand as if she would lead her away.
Who acts: you, warning, Alice · What happens: come, listen, be, seize, lead away · To what, where: hand, 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 (you, warning, 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
| 5 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 listen | discourse |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 oh | punct |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 voice | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 listen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 warning | case |
| 12 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | nmod |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 late | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 late | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 late | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 late | advmod |
| 17 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 listen | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 late | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 late | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seized | cc |
| 21 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 seized | nsubj |
| 22 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 late | conj |
| 23 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Eva | case |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seized | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 lead | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 lead | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lead | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 lead | aux |
| 30 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 seized | advcl |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lead | obj |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 lead | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | to the voice of warning | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | warning | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | seize in a quote | past | Alice | Eva's hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lead away in a quote | would | Alice | Eva | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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