Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 108
A maiden lady, the Baronin von Schattenthal, who was staying at the Castle with her young orphan niece, interested her with her quaint humour and sound common sense.
Who acts: maiden lady, music · What happens: stay, sound, humour · To what, where: Castle, common sense, maiden lady
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 (maiden lady, music), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 von | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 von | det |
| 6 | Baronin | Baronin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 von | compound |
| 7 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 3 lady | appos |
| 8 | Schattenthal | Schattenthal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 von | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 staying | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 staying | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 staying | aux |
| 12 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lady | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Castle | det |
| 15 | Castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staying | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 niece | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 niece | nmod:poss |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 niece | amod |
| 19 | orphan | orphan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 niece | amod |
| 20 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 staying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 interested | punct |
| 22 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 niece | amod |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 interested | nsubj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 humour | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 humour | nmod:poss |
| 26 | quaint | quaint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 humour | amod |
| 27 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 interested | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sound | cc |
| 29 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 staying | conj |
| 30 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sense | amod |
| 31 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sound | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · progressive | a maiden lady | the Castle | with music's young orphan niece | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at castle=Location | |||
| 2 | sound | present | a maiden lady not said here | common sense | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sense=Theme | ||||
| 4 | humour | music | nom humour «feeling transitive»: 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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