Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 81
This the Princess refused to do, and remained on the island till d'Aubert's death, in 1754.
Who acts: Princess, d'Aubert · What happens: refuse, not do, remain, die · To what, where: island
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 (Princess, d'Aubert), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Princess | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 refused | nsubj |
| 4 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 refused | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 remained | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 remained | cc |
| 9 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 refused | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 island | det |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remained | obl |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 14 | d'Aubert | d'aubert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 d'Aubert | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 island | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 1754 | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 1754 | case |
| 19 | 1754 | 1754 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 remained | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the Princess This | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not do | to-infinitive | the Princess This not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remain | participle | the Princess This not said here | the island till d'Aubert's death | in 1754 | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | |||
| 4 | die | d'Aubert | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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