Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 90
Death was written on his noble brow, but his great, deep violet eyes looked bravely and tenderly as ever into mine.
Who acts: great deep violet eyes · What happens: write, look · To what, where: Death, noble brow
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 (great deep violet eyes), 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 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | aux:pass |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brow | amod |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 written | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 great | punct |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 eyes | amod |
| 14 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | compound |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 written | parataxis |
| 17 | bravely | bravely | ADV | _ | 19 tenderly | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tenderly | cc |
| 19 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 looked | xcomp |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 ever | advmod |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 mine | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 mine | case |
| 23 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 looked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | Death | Karl's noble brow | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on brow=Destination | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Karl's great deep violet eyes | into mine; tenderly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into my=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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