Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 42
May assured her of her deep interest and sympathy, and they seated themselves under a magnificent oak near the lake.
Who acts: May, interest, joy · What happens: assure, seat, interest · To what, where: joy, interest, magnificent oak
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 (May, interest, joy), 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 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 assured | nsubj |
| 2 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assured | iobj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 interest | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 interest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 interest | amod |
| 7 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assured | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sympathy | cc |
| 9 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 interest | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seated | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seated | nsubj |
| 13 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 assured | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 seated | obj |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 oak | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 oak | det |
| 17 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 oak | amod |
| 18 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seated | obl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 lake | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lake | det |
| 21 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 oak | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | May | joy | of joy's deep interest and sympathy | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of interest=Topic | |||
| 2 | seat | past | interest | interest | a magnificent oak near the lake | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value | |||
| 3 | interest | joy | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=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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