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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 128

At length despair seizes the father's heart, he throws himself to the earth in wild agony, beats his brow and tears his hair, while a troop of attendants stand weeping around him.

Who acts: heart, troop · What happens: seize, throw, beat, tear, stand, weep · To what, where: heart, length despair, earth, brow, hair

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 (heart, troop), 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

casecompoundobldetnmod:posscaseobjpunctnsubjconjobjcasedetoblcaseamodnmodpunctparataxisnmod:possobjccconjnmod:possobjpunctmarkdetnsubjcasenmodconjxcompcaseoblpunctrootAtADPlengthNOUNdespairNOUNseizesVERBtheDETfatherNOUN'sPARTheartNOUN,PUNCThePRONthrowsVERBhimselfPRONtoADPtheDETearthNOUNinADPwildADJagonyNOUN,PUNCTbeatsVERBhisPRONbrowNOUNandCCONJtearsVERBhisPRONhairNOUN,PUNCTwhileSCONJaDETtroopNOUNofADPattendantsNOUNstandVERBweepingVERBaroundADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_3 despaircase
2lengthlengthNOUNNumber=Sing3 despaircompound
3despairdespairNOUNNumber=Sing4 seizesobl
4seizesseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 fatherdet
6fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing8 heartnmod:poss
7's'sPART_6 fathercase
8heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing4 seizesobj
9,,PUNCT_11 throwspunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 throwsnsubj
11throwsthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 seizesconj
12himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes11 throwsobj
13totoADP_15 earthcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 earthdet
15earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing11 throwsobl
16ininADP_18 agonycase
17wildwildADJDegree=Pos18 agonyamod
18agonyagonyNOUNNumber=Sing15 earthnmod
19,,PUNCT_20 beatspunct
20beatsbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 seizesparataxis
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 brownmod:poss
22browbrowNOUNNumber=Sing20 beatsobj
23andandCCONJ_24 tearscc
24tearstearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 beatsconj
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 hairnmod:poss
26hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing24 tearsobj
27,,PUNCT_33 standpunct
28whilewhileSCONJ_33 standmark
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 troopdet
30trooptroopNOUNNumber=Sing33 standnsubj
31ofofADP_32 attendantscase
32attendantsattendantNOUNNumber=Plur30 troopnmod
33standstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 beatsconj
34weepingweepVERBVerbForm=Ger33 standxcomp
35aroundaroundADP_36 himcase
36himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 weepingobl
37..PUNCT_4 seizespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seizepresentthe father's heartlength despairvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
2throwpresentheartheartthe earth in wild agonyvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to earth=Destination
3beatpresentheart's browvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brow=Theme
4tearpresentheart's hairvn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hair=Theme
5standpresenta troop of attendantsvn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6weepgerunda troop of attendants not said herearound heartvn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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