Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 107
“Thou art not afraid to be alone in this darkness, my child?” said she.
Who acts: Thou, Alahor · What happens: not be, be, say · To what, where: darkness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, Alahor), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 afraid | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 afraid | advmod |
| 5 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 alone | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 alone | cop |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 afraid | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 darkness | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 darkness | det |
| 11 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 child | nmod:poss |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afraid | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 afraid | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | Thou | my child conj; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | this darkness | alone property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Alahor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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