Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 102
She sat down much shaken on a seat of turf shaded by two lindens, and the tears streamed from her eyes.
Who acts: Lina, tears · What happens: sit down, shake, shade, stream · To what, where: seat, turf, eyes
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina, tears), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 shaken | advmod |
| 5 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sat | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 seat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 seat | det |
| 8 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shaken | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 turf | case |
| 10 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seat | nmod |
| 11 | shaded | shade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 turf | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 lindens | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 lindens | nummod |
| 14 | lindens | linden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shaded | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 streamed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 streamed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tears | det |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 streamed | nsubj |
| 19 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sat | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 streamed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Lina | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shake | participle | Lina not said here | a seat of turf | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seat=Location | ||||
| 3 | shade | participle | turf not said here | by two lindens | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stream | participle | the tears | Lina's eyes | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from eye=Source |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/3/102/