Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 100
"What a contrast to these grim ruins, with all their legendary memories, is this elegant scrap of modern art!" exclaimed May. "
Who acts: contrast · What happens: contrast, be, exclaim · To what, where: elegant scrap · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contrast), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrast | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 contrast | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 contrast | det |
| 4 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ruins | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 ruins | det |
| 7 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ruins | amod |
| 8 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contrast | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 memories | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 memories | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 memories | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 memories | nmod:poss |
| 13 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 memories | amod |
| 14 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 contrast | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scrap | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 scrap | cop |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 scrap | det |
| 18 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 scrap | amod |
| 19 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 contrast | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 art | case |
| 21 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 art | amod |
| 22 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scrap | nmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrast | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 contrast | punct |
| 25 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 exclaimed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 exclaimed | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contrast in a quote | to this grim ruins; What nsubj; contrast's legendary memories conj | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this elegant scrap | of modern art | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | a contrast and contrast's legendary memories and this elegant scrap | may | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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