Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 36
The Countess was still young, only five-and-twenty, of a pale, melancholy, but highly intelligent countenance, and her sapphire blue eyes had a mournful, far-away look in them, that touched one deeply.
Who acts: Countess, sapphire blue eyes, that · What happens: be, have, look, touch · To what, where: a
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countess, sapphire blue eyes, that), 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 | 2 Countess | det |
| 2 | Countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 young | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 young | advmod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twenty | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 twenty | advmod |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 twenty | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 twenty | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 twenty | cc |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 young | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 melancholy | punct |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 melancholy | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 melancholy | det |
| 16 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 melancholy | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pale | punct |
| 18 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 young | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 countenance | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 countenance | cc |
| 21 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 22 intelligent | advmod |
| 22 | intelligent | intelligent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 countenance | amod |
| 23 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 melancholy | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 had | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 had | cc |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sapphire | sapphire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 28 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyes | amod |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 look | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 mournful | punct |
| 34 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 away | advmod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 far | punct |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 look | advmod |
| 37 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 31 a | parataxis |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 look | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 touched | punct |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 touched | nsubj |
| 42 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 look | advcl |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 deeply | nummod |
| 44 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 42 touched | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Countess | still | five twenty obl; a pale melancholy conj; young property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | friend's sapphire blue eyes | a | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | in eyes = eye; away property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | touch | past | that | deeply property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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