Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 55
"Miss Mac Stab glowered at us with an awful face, and replied savagely, in coarse tones, 'Yes, here is a letter; but you wrote and sent it to the post yourselves; nobody would write to the likes of you.
Who acts: Miss Mac Stab, you, nobody · What happens: glower, reply, be, write, send · To what, where: letter, face, post, likes
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 (Miss Mac Stab, you, nobody), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 glowered | punct |
| 2 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Stab | compound |
| 3 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Stab | compound |
| 4 | Stab | Stab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 glowered | nsubj |
| 5 | glowered | glower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 glowered | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 face | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 face | det |
| 10 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 face | amod |
| 11 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 glowered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 replied | cc |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glowered | parataxis |
| 15 | savagely | savagely | ADV | _ | 14 replied | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tones | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tones | case |
| 18 | coarse | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tones | amod |
| 19 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Yes | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Yes | punct |
| 22 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 27 letter | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Yes | punct |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 Yes | advmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 letter | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 letter | det |
| 27 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tones | parataxis |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 wrote | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 wrote | cc |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 wrote | nsubj |
| 31 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glowered | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sent | cc |
| 33 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 wrote | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sent | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 post | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 post | det |
| 37 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sent | obl |
| 38 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 post | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 write | punct |
| 40 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 42 write | nsubj |
| 41 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 write | aux |
| 42 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 wrote | conj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 likes | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 likes | det |
| 45 | likes | like | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 write | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 you | case |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 likes | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glower in a quote | past | Miss Mac Stab | at us; with a awful face | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | coarse tones parataxis; savagely property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | a letter | here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write in a quote | past | you | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | send in a quote | past | you not said here | face | the post yourselves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to post=Destination | |||
| 6 | write in a quote | would | nobody | the likes of you | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to like=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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