Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 102
It was too hard and cruel; a loving word had been better."
Who acts: loving word · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loving word), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cruel | cc |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hard | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 better | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 better | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 better | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 better | cop |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 hard | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 3 | is | past · perfect | a loving word | good property | 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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