Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 6, sentence 59
"Yes, centuries!" exclaimed a scorn-laughing voice, and the Waldfrau stood before them; "that is thy punishment for thy criminal deed.
Who acts: laughing voice, Waldfrau, that · What happens: exclaim, laugh, stand, be · To what, where: punishment · 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 (laughing voice, Waldfrau, that), 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 | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 9 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laughing | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 scorn | punct |
| 11 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 voice | amod |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exclaimed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Waldfrau | det |
| 16 | Waldfrau | Waldfrau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 exclaimed | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 punishment | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 punishment | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 punishment | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 punishment | cop |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 25 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 deed | case |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 deed | nmod:poss |
| 28 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 deed | amod |
| 29 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 punishment | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | a laughing voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | scorn compound | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the Waldfrau | before walls = wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that | thy punishment | for thy criminal deed; thy nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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