Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 20
So she dares--for what will not love dare?--to leap over the wide space that divides the two rocks, leaving the impress of her feet in the rock, since called the Mägdetrappe.
Who acts: Mägdetrappe, wide space · What happens: dare, not love, leap, divide, leave, call · To what, where: dare, wide space, two rocks, impress, rock, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
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, wide space), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 dares | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dares | nsubj |
| 3 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 leap | advcl |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 love | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 love | mark |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 love | obj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 love | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 love | advmod |
| 9 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dares | ccomp |
| 10 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dares | punct |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 leap | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leap | mark |
| 14 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 space | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 space | det |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 space | amod |
| 18 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leap | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 divides | nsubj |
| 20 | divides | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 space | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rocks | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 rocks | nummod |
| 23 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 divides | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 leaving | punct |
| 25 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 leap | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 impress | det |
| 27 | impress | impress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leaving | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 feet | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 feet | nmod:poss |
| 30 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 impress | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 rock | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rock | det |
| 33 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leaving | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 called | punct |
| 35 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 36 called | mark |
| 36 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 leap | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Mägdetrappe | det |
| 38 | Mägdetrappe | Mägdetrappe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 called | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 leap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | Mägdetrappe | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not love | future | Mägdetrappe not said here | dare | what obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leap | to-infinitive | the wide space | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over space=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | divide | present | the wide space | the two rocks | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the impress of Mägdetrappe's feet | the rock | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent impress=Theme in rock=Location | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | the Mägdetrappe xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | impress | Mägdetrappe's feet | nom impress «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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