Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 18
She is at least as competent to do so as anybody else, A giant virgin of the grey primeval times saw from the Mägdesprung her lover on a mountain on the opposite bank.
Who acts: Mägdetrappe · What happens: be, do, see · To what, where: least, giant virgin, Mägdesprung
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mägdetrappe), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 competent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 competent | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 least | case |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 competent | obl |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 competent | case |
| 6 | competent | competent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 competent | xcomp |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 anybody | case |
| 11 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 do | obl |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 anybody | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 virgin | punct |
| 14 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 virgin | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 virgin | amod |
| 16 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 times | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 times | det |
| 19 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 times | amod |
| 20 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 times | compound |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obl |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 competent | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Mägdesprung | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Mägdesprung | det |
| 25 | Mägdesprung | Mägdesprung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lover | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 mountain | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mountain | det |
| 30 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saw | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 bank | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bank | det |
| 33 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bank | amod |
| 34 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mountain | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 competent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mägdetrappe | least | competent property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Mägdetrappe not said here | as anybody | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Mägdetrappe not said here | a giant virgin | the Mägdesprung | time | on a mountain on the opposite bank; Mägdetrappe's lover obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lover=Stimulus |
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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