Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 17
The youngest looked on in terror; but the ladies exclaimed, "Thou art a true friend, and innocent.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: look on, exclaim
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies), 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 | 3 looked | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 looked | amod |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 looked | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 exclaimed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ladies | det |
| 10 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 art | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 art | punct |
| 14 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 art | nsubj |
| 15 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 exclaimed | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 friend | det |
| 17 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friend | amod |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 art | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 innocent | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 innocent | cc |
| 21 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 exclaimed | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | participle | in terror | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in terror=Theme | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | the ladies | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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