Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 120
She soon found, however, that he was possessed of much finer cultivated hair and moustache than mind.
Who acts: hostess · What happens: find, possess, cultivate · To what, where: Stammnitz
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 (hostess), 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 | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 found | advmod |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 found | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 possessed | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 possessed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 possessed | aux:pass |
| 10 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 finer | case |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 finer | amod |
| 13 | finer | finer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 possessed | obl |
| 14 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 hair | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finer | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 moustache | cc |
| 17 | moustache | moustache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finer | conj |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moustache | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | hostess | however, soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | possess | past · passive | Stammnitz | of much finer cultivated hair and moustache than mind | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cultivate | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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