Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 80
The Empress wrote to Madame d'Aubert, beseeching her to leave her husband and repair to the Austrian Court.
Who acts: Empress · What happens: write, beseech, leave · To what, where: Madame d'Aubert, Empress, husband, Austrian Court
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 (Empress), 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 | 2 Empress | det |
| 2 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 d'Aubert | case |
| 5 | Madame | Madame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 d'Aubert | compound |
| 6 | d'Aubert | d'aubert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beseeching | punct |
| 8 | beseeching | beseech | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 wrote | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beseeching | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 leave | mark |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 beseeching | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 repair | cc |
| 15 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 husband | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Court | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Court | det |
| 18 | Austrian | austrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Court | amod |
| 19 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | the Empress | Madame d'Aubert | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to d'aubert=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | beseech | gerund | the Empress not said here | Empress | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | the Empress not said here | Empress's husband and repair | the Austrian Court | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Theme to court=Recipient |
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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