Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 20
"That is a dark saying," she at length said, breaking the silence, and muttered thoughtfully to herself. "
Who acts: That, Fischersche · What happens: be, say, break, mutter · To what, where: dark saying, silence, Fischersche · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Fischersche), 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 | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 saying | det |
| 5 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saying | amod |
| 6 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 length | case |
| 11 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 she | nmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 breaking | punct |
| 14 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 silence | det |
| 16 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breaking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 muttered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 muttered | cc |
| 19 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 19 muttered | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 herself | case |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 muttered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | a dark saying | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fischersche | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | break | gerund | Fischersche not said here | the silence | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer silence=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mutter speech: assert | past | Fischersche not said here | Fischersche | thoughtfully property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=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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