Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 89
"Anna," said he to his wife, a blonde of perhaps thirty years, with soft features and gentle dove eyes, "thou knowest I am patience itself, but that is too bad--that is too bad.
Who acts: Anna, thou, that · What happens: say, know, be · To what, where: wife, patience · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Anna, thou, that), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Anna | punct |
| 2 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Anna | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Anna | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blonde | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blonde | det |
| 12 | blonde | blonde | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 15 thirty | advmod |
| 15 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 years | nummod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 blonde | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 features | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 features | case |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 features | amod |
| 20 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wife | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eyes | cc |
| 22 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyes | amod |
| 23 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eyes | compound |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wife | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 knowest | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 knowest | punct |
| 27 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 knowest | nsubj |
| 28 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 patience | nsubj |
| 30 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 patience | cop |
| 31 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 knowest | obj |
| 32 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 31 patience | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bad | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 bad | cc |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 bad | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 bad | cop |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 bad | advmod |
| 38 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 knowest | parataxis |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 bad | punct |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 bad | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 bad | cop |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 bad | advmod |
| 43 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bad | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Anna | Anna's wife and soft features and gentle dove eyes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Anna | patience | eye nmod:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | that | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | that | bad property | 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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