Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 72
What has caused the smile to vanish so suddenly from her face, and the tears to rush to her eyes?
Who acts: tears · What happens: cause, vanish, rush · To what, where: smile
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 (tears), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | aux |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smile | det |
| 5 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 vanish | mark |
| 7 | vanish | vanish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 smile | acl |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 suddenly | advmod |
| 9 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 vanish | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suddenly | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rush | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rush | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tears | det |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rush | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rush | mark |
| 18 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 caused | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rush | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · perfect · passive | the smile | What nsubj:pass | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme smile=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | vanish | to-infinitive | the smile not said here | suddenly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | to-infinitive | the tears | to Reinhilde's eyes result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to eye=Result |
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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