Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 54
The inhuman treatment of this monster increased daily, and no courtier dared to defend the unhappy Princess against his brutality.
Who acts: inhuman treatment, courtier · What happens: increase, dare, defend, treat · To what, where: unhappy Princess, monster
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 (inhuman treatment, courtier), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 treatment | det |
| 2 | inhuman | inhuman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 treatment | amod |
| 3 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 increased | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 monster | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 monster | det |
| 6 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treatment | nmod |
| 7 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 7 increased | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dared | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 courtier | det |
| 12 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dared | nsubj |
| 13 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 increased | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 defend | mark |
| 15 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dared | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 17 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Princess | amod |
| 18 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 defend | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 brutality | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brutality | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brutality | brutality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Princess | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | the inhuman treatment of this monster | daily property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dare | past | no courtier | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | defend | to-infinitive | no courtier not said here | the unhappy Princess | against courtier's brutality | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent princess=Beneficiary against brutality=Theme | |||
| 4 | treat | this monster | nom treatment «act transitive»: of=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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