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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opinion | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 She | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 opinion | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opinion | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 opinion | case |
| 7 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 great | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 great | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 great | cop |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 opinion | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 permit | mark |
| 16 | permit | permit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 great | conj |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 troubling | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 troubling | nmod:poss |
| 19 | troubling | trouble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 permit | acl |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 troubling | obj |
| 22 | else | else | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 declared | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 declared | cc |
| 27 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opinion | parataxis |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | aux |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 find | advmod |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 declared | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 mitigation | det |
| 33 | mitigation | mitigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 woe | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 woe | nmod:poss |
| 36 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mitigation | nmod |
| 37 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 38 drying | mark |
| 38 | drying | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 woe | acl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 drying | compound:prt |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tears | det |
| 41 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 drying | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 others | case |
| 43 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 tears | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | maiden | of opinion; however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | maiden's sorrow | permit conj; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | trouble | gerund | permit not said here | any one | with sorrow; maiden nmod:poss | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | find | could | maiden | a mitigation of maiden's woe | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mitigation=Topic | ||||
| 6 | dry up | gerund | maiden's woe not said here | the tears of others | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result | ||||
| 7 | sorrow | maiden | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | mitigate | maiden's woe | nom 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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