Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 84
The pale, ghastly faces looking up to God's pure, blue heavens so _fearfully calm_ above all this human woe and anguish.
Who acts: pale ghastly faces · What happens: look up, anguish
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 (pale ghastly faces), 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 | 5 faces | det |
| 2 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 faces | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pale | punct |
| 4 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 faces | amod |
| 5 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | nsubj |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 looking | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 heavens | case |
| 9 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 heavens | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 God | case |
| 11 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heavens | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blue | punct |
| 13 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pure | conj |
| 14 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 calm | advmod |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 calm | punct |
| 17 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 18 calm | advmod |
| 18 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looking | advcl |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 18 calm | punct |
| 20 | above | above | ADP | _ | 24 woe | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 woe | det:predet |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 woe | det |
| 23 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woe | amod |
| 24 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calm | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 anguish | cc |
| 26 | anguish | anguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 woe | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | gerund | the pale ghastly faces | to God's pure heavens | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to heaven=Theme | ||||
| 2 | anguish | infinitive | the pale ghastly faces not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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