Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 107
May Rosenmore amused herself with a study of the varied characters present, and with German manners, which were new to her.
Who acts: May, varied characters, German manners · What happens: amuse, present, be · To what, where: music, study
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 (May, varied characters, German manners), 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 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 amused | nsubj |
| 2 | Rosenmore | Rosenmore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 May | flat |
| 3 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 amused | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 study | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 study | det |
| 7 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 amused | obl |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 present | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 characters | det |
| 10 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 characters | amod |
| 11 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 present | nsubj |
| 12 | present | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 study | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 manners | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 manners | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 manners | case |
| 16 | German | German | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 manners | amod |
| 17 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 amused | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 new | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 new | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 new | cop |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 manners | amod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 new | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amuse | past | May | music | with a study; German manners parataxis | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | present | present | the varied characters | a study not said here | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent study=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | German manners | music | new property | tree rules |
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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