Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 3, sentence 99
With a scream Eva sprang forward, threw herself down before Alice, clasped her knees and cried, "Be merciful, Alice; have pity on my misery.
Who acts: Eva · What happens: spring, throw down, clasp, cry, be, have · To what, where: Eva, knees, pity, misery · 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 (Eva), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 scream | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scream | det |
| 3 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 4 | Eva | Eva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 threw | compound:prt |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 Alice | case |
| 12 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clasped | punct |
| 14 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 knees | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clasped | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cried | cc |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clasped | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 merciful | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 merciful | punct |
| 21 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 merciful | cop |
| 22 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cried | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Alice | punct |
| 24 | Alice | Alice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 merciful | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | parataxis |
| 27 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 misery | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 misery | nmod:poss |
| 30 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Eva | with a scream; forward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw down | past | Eva not said here | Eva | before Alice | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme before alice=Destination | |||
| 3 | clasp | past | Eva not said here | Eva's knees | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Eva not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | infinitive | Alice conj; merciful property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | pity | my misery | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=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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