Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 30
After some reflection, Adam permitted his wife, who looked at him with beseeching eyes, to bring the required objects.
Who acts: Adam, wife · What happens: permit, look, beseech, bring, require · To what, where: wife, required objects
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adam, wife), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 reflection | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 reflection | det |
| 3 | reflection | reflection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 permitted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reflection | punct |
| 5 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 permitted | nsubj |
| 6 | permitted | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 permitted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wife | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 15 | beseeching | beseech | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 permitted | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 objects | det |
| 21 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 objects | amod |
| 22 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bring | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 permitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | past | Adam | Adam's wife | after some reflection | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | Adam's wife | at Adam; with beseeching eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beseech | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | Adam not said here | the required objects | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 5 | require | participle | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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