Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 63
While all the courts of Europe put on mourning, and the father wept for his untimely loss, and caused a commemorative coin to be struck, Charlotte, with the aid of confidential friends, especially the famous Aurora von Königsmark, escaped, weak and ill, from her palace.
Who acts: father · What happens: put, weep, cause, strike, escape · To what, where: courts, mourning, commemorative coin, weak, palace
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 (father), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 courts | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courts | det |
| 4 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 courts | nmod |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 mourning | case |
| 9 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wept | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wept | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wept | nsubj |
| 14 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 loss | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 loss | nmod:poss |
| 17 | untimely | untimely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 loss | amod |
| 18 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wept | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caused | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 caused | cc |
| 21 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wept | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 coin | det |
| 23 | commemorative | commemorative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 coin | amod |
| 24 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caused | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 struck | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 struck | aux:pass |
| 27 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 caused | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Charlotte | punct |
| 29 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 aid | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 aid | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 aid | det |
| 33 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 friends | case |
| 35 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 friends | amod |
| 36 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 aid | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Aurora | punct |
| 38 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 41 Aurora | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Aurora | det |
| 40 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Aurora | amod |
| 41 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 friends | appos |
| 42 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 41 Aurora | flat |
| 43 | Königsmark | Königsmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Aurora | flat |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 escaped | punct |
| 45 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 weak | punct |
| 47 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 escaped | obj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 ill | cc |
| 49 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 weak | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 palace | punct |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 palace | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 palace | nmod:poss |
| 53 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 escaped | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle · passive | all courts of Europe | mourning | with the aid of confidential friends; Charlotte obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on mourning=Destination | |||
| 2 | weep | past | the father | for father's untimely loss | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | the father not said here | a commemorative coin | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition coin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive · passive | the father not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 5 | escape | past | weak | Europe's palace | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme weak=Initial_Location |
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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