Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 37
The cheeks were ashy pale, the eye broken, cold and still the lips; she awoke no more at his call.
Who acts: cheeks, Liutburga, hearing · What happens: be, break, awake, call · To what, where: eye, call · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cheeks, Liutburga, hearing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cheeks | det |
| 2 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pale | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pale | cop |
| 4 | ashy | ashy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pale | amod |
| 5 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 eye | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pale | obl |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 eye | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cold | punct |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 broken | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lips | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 lips | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lips | det |
| 15 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cold | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 awoke | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 awoke | nsubj |
| 18 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pale | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 more | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 awoke | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 call | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 call | nmod:poss |
| 23 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 awoke | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cheeks | the eye obl; pale property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | the eye not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | awake | past | Liutburga | hearing's call | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at call=Location | ||||
| 4 | call | hearing | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=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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