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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 88

She told him she had, unseen, perceived what troubled him, and it afforded her soul sweet comfort to know that she could help him.

Who acts: maiden, sorrow · What happens: tell, have, perceive, trouble, afford, know · To what, where: sympathy, maiden · 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), 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

nsubjiobjnsubjccomppunctxcomppunctconjnsubjccompobjpunctccnsubjconjobjcompoundamodobjmarkadvclmarknsubjauxccompobjpunctrootShePRONtoldVERBhimPRONshePRONhadVERB,PUNCTunseenADJ,PUNCTperceivedVERBwhatPRONtroubledVERBhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJitPRONaffordedVERBherPRONsoulNOUNsweetADJcomfortNOUNtoPARTknowVERBthatSCONJshePRONcouldAUXhelpVERBhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 toldnsubj
2toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 toldiobj
4sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 hadnsubj
5hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 toldccomp
6,,PUNCT_7 unseenpunct
7unseenunseenADJDegree=Pos5 hadxcomp
8,,PUNCT_9 perceivedpunct
9perceivedperceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 toldconj
10whatwhatPRONPronType=Int11 troublednsubj
11troubledtroubleVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 perceivedccomp
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 troubledobj
13,,PUNCT_16 affordedpunct
14andandCCONJ_16 affordedcc
15ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 affordednsubj
16affordedaffordVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 toldconj
17hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 affordedobj
18soulsoulNOUNNumber=Sing19 sweetcompound
19sweetsweetADJDegree=Pos20 comfortamod
20comfortcomfortNOUNNumber=Sing16 affordedobj
21totoPART_22 knowmark
22knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf16 affordedadvcl
23thatthatSCONJ_26 helpmark
24sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 helpnsubj
25couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin26 helpaux
26helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf22 knowccomp
27himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 helpobj
28..PUNCT_2 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastmaidensympathyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2havepastmaidenunseen propertyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3perceivepastmaiden not said herevn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4troublepastsympathywhat nsubjvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
5affordpastsorrowmaidensweet comfort objtree rules
6knowto-infinitivesorrow not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7helpcouldmaidensympathyvn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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