Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 111

Finding that her aunt paid no attention to her toilette nor her curls, Amalia finally whispered, "See, Tante, Gretchen has curled my hair."

Who acts: Amalia, aunt, Gretchen · What happens: find, pay, whisper, see, curl · To what, where: attention, Tante, hair · 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 (Amalia, aunt, Gretchen), 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	Finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 whispered	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 paid	mark
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 aunt	nmod:poss
4	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	nsubj
5	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Finding	ccomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 attention	det
7	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 toilette	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 toilette	nmod:poss
10	toilette	toilette	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 paid	obl
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 curls	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 curls	nmod:poss
13	curls	curl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 toilette	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finding	punct
15	Amalia	Amalia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 whispered	nsubj
16	finally	finally	ADV	_	17 whispered	advmod
17	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 See	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 See	punct
20	See	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 whispered	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Tante	punct
22	Tante	Tante	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 See	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 curled	punct
24	Gretchen	Gretchen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 curled	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 curled	aux
26	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 See	parataxis
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hair	nmod:poss
28	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 curled	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 See	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 See	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	Amalia not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	pay	past	Amalia's aunt	no attention	to Amalia's toilette nor Amalia's curls	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
3	whisper speech: assert	past	Amalia		finally property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see in a quote	infinitive		Tante		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tante=Stimulus
5	curl in a quote	present · perfect	Gretchen	my hair		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 111

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 111