Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 102
The benevolent maiden lay on the ground dying, her countenance distorted with sorrow and pain.
Who acts: benevolent maiden lay · What happens: die, distort
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (benevolent maiden lay), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lay | det |
| 2 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lay | amod |
| 4 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distorted | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nmod |
| 8 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lay | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 distorted | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distorted | nsubj |
| 12 | distorted | distort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sorrow | case |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 distorted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pain | cc |
| 16 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sorrow | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 distorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | the benevolent maiden lay on the ground not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | distort | past | the benevolent maiden lay on the ground | with sorrow and pain; lay's countenance nsubj | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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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