Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 110
She was a lovely child, with long auburn curls, and a dash of the French character, for her mother was a Pole.
Who acts: Amalia, long auburn, mother · What happens: be, curl · To what, where: lovely child, dash
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 (Amalia, long auburn, mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 child | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 child | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 curls | punct |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 curls | mark |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 auburn | amod |
| 9 | auburn | auburn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 curls | nsubj |
| 10 | curls | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 child | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dash | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dash | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dash | det |
| 14 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 curls | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 character | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 character | det |
| 17 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 character | amod |
| 18 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dash | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Pole | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Pole | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Pole | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Pole | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Pole | det |
| 25 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 curls | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 child | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Amalia | a lovely child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | curl | present | long auburn | a dash of the French character | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Amalia's mother | for a Pole | 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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