Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 5, sentence 97
Anna heard with surprise this puzzling communication, and after many suppositions on the subject she went out shaking her head, to direct household matters, and Adam remained alone with his vexation.
Who acts: Anna, much, household, Adam · What happens: hear, puzzle, go out, shake, direct, matter · To what, where: puzzling communication, head
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, much, household, Adam), 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 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 surprise | case |
| 4 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 communication | det |
| 6 | puzzling | puzzle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 communication | amod |
| 7 | communication | communication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 suppositions | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 suppositions | amod |
| 12 | suppositions | supposition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 subject | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 subject | det |
| 15 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 suppositions | nmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 went | xcomp |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shaking | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 direct | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 direct | mark |
| 24 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shaking | conj |
| 25 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 matters | nsubj |
| 26 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 direct | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 remained | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 remained | cc |
| 29 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 remained | nsubj |
| 30 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 31 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 30 remained | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 vexation | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 vexation | nmod:poss |
| 34 | vexation | vexation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 remained | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Anna | this puzzling communication | with surprise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer communication=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | puzzle | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | go out | past | much | after many suppositions on the subject | out property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shake | gerund | much not said here | much's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | direct | to-infinitive | much not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | matter | present | household | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | remain | past | Adam | with Adam's vexation; alone property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | vex | Adam | nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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