Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 8
An English girl driving away from Ballenstedt, cried out, "Farewell, Arz!"
Who acts: English girl · What happens: drive away, cry out · To what, where: Ballenstedt
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 (English girl), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 girl | acl |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 driving | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Ballenstedt | case |
| 7 | Ballenstedt | Ballenstedt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 cried | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Arz | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Arz | punct |
| 13 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 15 Arz | discourse |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Arz | punct |
| 15 | Arz | Arz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Arz | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Arz | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive away | gerund | a English girl not said here | Ballenstedt | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from ballenstedt=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | a English girl | Arz parataxis | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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