Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 79
"Does it no longer please thee here?" asked the dwarf, with a quick-clouding face. "
What happens: do, ask, cloud · To what, where: reflection, dwarf · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 Does | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Does | obj |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 longer | advmod |
| 5 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 here | advmod |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 thee | discourse |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 longer | obl |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Does | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Does | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dwarf | det |
| 13 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 face | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 face | det |
| 17 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 clouding | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 quick | punct |
| 19 | clouding | cloud | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 face | amod |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | reflection | here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the dwarf | with a clouding face | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dwarf=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cloud | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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