Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 83
Charlotte lived a retired life, no one but the now aged waiting-woman who had fled with her having the remotest idea of her high rank and astounding fate.
Who acts: Charlotte, aged waiting woman · What happens: live, flee, have · To what, where: retired life, remotest idea
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 (Charlotte, aged waiting woman), 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 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 life | det |
| 4 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 life | appos |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 woman | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 aged | advmod |
| 12 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 13 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woman | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 waiting | punct |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 fled | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fled | aux |
| 18 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 woman | acl:relcl |
| 19 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 21 having | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 having | nmod:poss |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 fled | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 idea | det |
| 23 | remotest | remote | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 idea | amod |
| 24 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 having | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rank | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 rank | nmod:poss |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 rank | amod |
| 28 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 idea | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fate | cc |
| 30 | astounding | astounding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fate | amod |
| 31 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rank | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Charlotte | a retired life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 2 | flee | past · perfect | the aged waiting woman | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the aged waiting woman not said here | the remotest idea of woman's high rank and astounding fate | woman nmod:poss | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
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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