Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 99
In the pocket was a photo of a lady and gentleman together, the latter in officer's uniform.
What happens: be · To what, where: photo, pocket
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 pocket | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pocket | det |
| 3 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 photo | obl | ||
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 photo | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 photo | det |
| 6 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lady | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lady | det |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 photo | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gentleman | cc |
| 11 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lady | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 lady | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 latter | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 latter | det |
| 15 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 photo | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 uniform | case |
| 17 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 uniform | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 officer | case |
| 19 | uniform | uniform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 latter | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 photo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a photo | the pocket | of a lady and gentleman | 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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