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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 87

She, however, was of opinion that her sorrow was much too great to permit of her troubling any one else with it, and declared she could only find a mitigation of her woe in drying up the tears of others.

Who acts: maiden, sorrow, permit, woe · What happens: be, trouble, declare, find, dry up, sorrow · To what, where: one, mitigation, tears, woe · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maiden, sorrow, permit, woe), 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

nsubjpunctadvmodpunctcopcasemarknmod:possnsubjcopadvmodadvmodadvclmarkconjmarknmod:possacldetobjadvmodcasenmodpunctccparataxisnsubjauxadvmodccompdetobjcasenmod:possnmodmarkaclcompound:prtdetobjcasenmodpunctrootShePRON,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTwasAUXofADPopinionNOUNthatSCONJherPRONsorrowNOUNwasAUXmuchADVtooADVgreatADJtoPARTpermitNOUNofSCONJherPRONtroublingVERBanyDEToneNOUNelseADVwithADPitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJdeclaredVERBshePRONcouldAUXonlyADVfindVERBaDETmitigationNOUNofADPherPRONwoeNOUNinSCONJdryingVERBupADPtheDETtearsNOUNofADPothersNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 opinionnsubj
2,,PUNCT_1 Shepunct
3howeverhoweverADV_7 opinionadvmod
4,,PUNCT_3 howeverpunct
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 opinioncop
6ofofADP_7 opinioncase
7opinionopinionNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
8thatthatSCONJ_14 greatmark
9herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 sorrownmod:poss
10sorrowsorrowNOUNNumber=Sing14 greatnsubj
11wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 greatcop
12muchmuchADV_14 greatadvmod
13tootooADV_14 greatadvmod
14greatgreatADJDegree=Pos7 opinionadvcl
15totoPART_16 permitmark
16permitpermitNOUNNumber=Sing14 greatconj
17ofofSCONJ_19 troublingmark
18herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 troublingnmod:poss
19troublingtroubleVERBVerbForm=Ger16 permitacl
20anyanyDETPronType=Ind21 onedet
21oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing19 troublingobj
22elseelseADV_21 oneadvmod
23withwithADP_24 itcase
24ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 onenmod
25,,PUNCT_27 declaredpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 declaredcc
27declareddeclareVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 opinionparataxis
28sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 findnsubj
29couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin31 findaux
30onlyonlyADV_31 findadvmod
31findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf27 declaredccomp
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 mitigationdet
33mitigationmitigationNOUNNumber=Sing31 findobj
34ofofADP_36 woecase
35herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs36 woenmod:poss
36woewoeNOUNNumber=Sing33 mitigationnmod
37ininSCONJ_38 dryingmark
38dryingdryVERBVerbForm=Ger36 woeacl
39upupADP_38 dryingcompound:prt
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 tearsdet
41tearstearNOUNNumber=Plur38 dryingobj
42ofofADP_43 otherscase
43othersotherNOUNNumber=Plur41 tearsnmod
44..PUNCT_7 opinionpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastmaidenof opinion; however propertytree rules
2ispastmaiden's sorrowpermit conj; great propertytree rules
3troublegerundpermit not said hereany onewith sorrow; maiden nmod:possvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer
4declare speech: otherpastvn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5findcouldmaidena mitigation of maiden's woevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mitigation=Topic
6dry upgerundmaiden's woe not said herethe tears of othersvn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result
7sorrowmaidennom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
8mitigatemaiden's woenom mitigation «act transitive»: of=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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