Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 97
The last two sketches were--first, an arbour, in which a lady and gentleman are seated; the lady is arranging roses from a basket before her, while her companion reads to her.
Who acts: last two sketches, lady, companion · What happens: be, seat, arrange, read · To what, where: arbour, lady, roses, basket, guard
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 (last two sketches, lady, companion), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sketches | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sketches | amod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sketches | nummod |
| 4 | sketches | sketch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arbour | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arbour | cop |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 arbour | punct |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 arbour | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arbour | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arbour | det |
| 10 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seated | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 seated | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lady | det |
| 15 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gentleman | cc |
| 17 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lady | conj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 seated | aux:pass |
| 19 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 arbour | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 arranging | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lady | det |
| 22 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arranging | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 arranging | aux |
| 24 | arranging | arrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 reads | csubj |
| 25 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 arranging | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 basket | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 basket | det |
| 28 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arranging | obl |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 arranging | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 reads | punct |
| 32 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 reads | mark |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 companion | nmod:poss |
| 34 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 reads | nsubj |
| 35 | reads | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 arbour | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 reads | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 arbour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the last two sketches | a arbour | first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seat | present · passive | a lady and gentleman | a arbour | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | arrange | present · progressive | the lady | roses | a basket | before guard | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rose=Theme before she=Destination | ||
| 4 | read | present | guard's companion | guard | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
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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