Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 82
After the death of both husband and daughter, she returned to Paris, settled the affairs of her husband, and retired to Brussels, where she received an annual pension from the Austrian Empress.
Who acts: death, husband · What happens: return, settle, retire, receive, die · To what, where: Paris, affairs, Brussels, annual pension
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 (death, husband), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 death | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 death | det |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 husband | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 husband | det |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 death | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 daughter | cc |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 husband | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 death | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Paris | case |
| 13 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 settled | punct |
| 15 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 returned | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 affairs | det |
| 17 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 settled | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 affairs | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 retired | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 retired | cc |
| 23 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 settled | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Brussels | case |
| 25 | Brussels | Brussels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 retired | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 received | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 received | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 received | nsubj |
| 29 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Brussels | acl:relcl |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 pension | det |
| 31 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 pension | amod |
| 32 | pension | pension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 received | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 Empress | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Empress | det |
| 35 | Austrian | austrian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Empress | amod |
| 36 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 pension | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | death | Paris | after the death of both husband and daughter | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to paris=Result | |||
| 2 | settle | past | death not said here | the affairs of death's husband | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme affair=Location | ||||
| 3 | retire | participle | death not said here | Brussels | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | death | a annual pension | from the Austrian Empress | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pension=Theme from empress=Source | |||
| 5 | die | both husband and daughter | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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