Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 18
In a frightful, peculiar manner he twitched his yellow face, and his garments were strange and odd.
Who acts: heart, garments · What happens: twitch, be · To what, where: yellow face
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 (heart, garments), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 manner | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 manner | det |
| 3 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 manner | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 frightful | punct |
| 5 | peculiar | peculiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 manner | amod |
| 6 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twitched | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 twitched | nsubj |
| 8 | twitched | twitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twitched | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strange | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 strange | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 garments | nmod:poss |
| 15 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 strange | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 strange | cop |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 twitched | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 odd | cc |
| 19 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 strange | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 twitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twitch | past | heart | heart's yellow face | in a frightful peculiar manner | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in manner=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | heart's garments | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | heart's garments not said here | tree rules |
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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