Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 59
But now the friends of the Princess united for her rescue; the opportunity was too favourable to let slip.
Who acts: opportunity, Alexis · What happens: be, let, rescue · To what, where: slip, friends
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 (opportunity, Alexis), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 friends | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 friends | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 friends | det |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 united | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 united | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 united | compound |
| 8 | united | United | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 rescue | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rescue | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 united | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 favourable | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 opportunity | det |
| 14 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 favourable | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 favourable | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 favourable | advmod |
| 17 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friends | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 let | mark |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 favourable | xcomp |
| 20 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the opportunity | favourable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | the opportunity not said here | slip | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rescue | Alexis | nom rescue «act 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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