Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 84
Who is the low knave, the insolent coxcomb, who has dared to raise his eyes to the Kaiser's daughter?
Who acts: insolent coxcomb · What happens: be, dare, raise · To what, where: low knave, eyes, daughter
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 (insolent coxcomb), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 knave | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 knave | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knave | det |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knave | amod |
| 5 | knave | knave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coxcomb | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coxcomb | det |
| 8 | insolent | insolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 coxcomb | amod |
| 9 | coxcomb | coxcomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knave | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dared | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dared | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dared | aux |
| 13 | dared | dare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 coxcomb | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 raise | mark |
| 15 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dared | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 raise | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 daughter | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kaiser | det |
| 20 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 Kaiser | case |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raise | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 knave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the low knave | Who nsubj; the insolent coxcomb appos | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dare | present · perfect | the insolent coxcomb | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | raise | to-infinitive | the insolent coxcomb not said here | Kaiser's eyes | the Kaiser's daughter | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to daughter=Destination |
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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