Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 19
Her ardent love draws her to him, but she cannot climb the steep rocks, nor swim the Selke, then a torrent.
Who acts: ardent love, Mägdetrappe · What happens: draw, not climb, swim, love · To what, where: Mägdetrappe, Alexisbad, steep rocks, Selke
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 (ardent love, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 love | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 love | amod |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 draws | nsubj |
| 4 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 draws | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 draws | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 climb | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 climb | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 climb | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 climb | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 climb | advmod |
| 13 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 draws | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rocks | det |
| 15 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rocks | amod |
| 16 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 climb | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 swim | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 swim | cc |
| 19 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 draws | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Selke | det |
| 21 | Selke | Selke | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 swim | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 torrent | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 torrent | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 torrent | det |
| 25 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Selke | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 draws | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Mägdetrappe's ardent love | Mägdetrappe | Alexisbad | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 2 | not climb | can | Mägdetrappe | the steep rocks | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swim | present | Mägdetrappe's ardent love not said here | the Selke | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location selke=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | Mägdetrappe | nom love «feeling 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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