Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 92
"But, dear husband," replied Frau Anna, in a gentle voice, for she had not seen her husband so excited for a long time, "do not excite thyself so.
Who acts: dear husband, fat · What happens: reply, not see, not excite · To what, where: Frau Anna, gentle voice, husband, thyself · 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 (dear husband, fat), 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 | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 replied | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 husband | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 husband | amod |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 husband | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 husband | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Frau | Frau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Anna | compound |
| 10 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 excited | advmod |
| 25 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seen | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 time | det |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 time | amod |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 excited | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 excite | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 excite | punct |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 34 excite | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 excite | advmod |
| 34 | excite | excite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 seen | conj |
| 35 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 34 excite | obj |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 excite | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | dear husband | Frau Anna | a gentle voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anna=Topic | |||
| 2 | not see | past · perfect | fat | fat's husband | excited property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not excite in a quote | infinitive · do-support | fat not said here | thyself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thyself=Experiencer |
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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