Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 61
But what was her despair to find she stood on a dizzy height, and the fearful depth yawned beneath her.
Who acts: Escape, fearful depth · What happens: be, find, stand, yawn · To what, where: despair, dizzy height · 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 (Escape, fearful depth), 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 despair | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 despair | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | cop |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 despair | nmod:poss |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 despair | acl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | ccomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 height | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 height | det |
| 12 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 height | amod |
| 13 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 yawned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 yawned | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 depth | det |
| 17 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 depth | amod |
| 18 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 yawned | nsubj |
| 19 | yawned | yawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 20 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 yawned | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Escape's despair | what nsubj; Escape nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | Escape | a dizzy height | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on height=Location | ||||
| 4 | yawn | past | the fearful depth | beneath Escape | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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