Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 113
Amalia's crestfallen, puzzled look as she walked away were amusing enough.
Who acts: Amalia, crestfallen puzzled look · What happens: walk away, be · To what, where: crestfallen puzzled look
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, crestfallen puzzled look), 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 | Amalia | Amalia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 look | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Amalia | case |
| 3 | crestfallen | crestfallen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crestfallen | punct |
| 5 | puzzled | puzzled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | amod |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amusing | nsubj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 walked | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | acl:relcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 walked | advmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 amusing | cop |
| 12 | amusing | amusing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 amusing | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 amusing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | past | Amalia | Amalia's crestfallen puzzled look not said here | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | Amalia's crestfallen puzzled look | amusing, enough 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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