Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 118
But May was not left long at leisure to amuse herself with the pretty child.
What happens: not leave, amuse · To what, where: May, leisure, child
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 left | cc |
| 2 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 left | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 leisure | case |
| 8 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 amuse | mark |
| 10 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | advcl |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 amuse | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 child | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 amuse | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past · passive | May | leisure | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at leisure=Location | ||||
| 2 | amuse | to-infinitive | child | with the pretty child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
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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