Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 22
A maiden of the Huns, a disciple of Diana, roaming fearlessly through the vale, hears from the Mägdesprung a cry of distress.
Who acts: disciple, maiden, distress · What happens: roam, hear, cry · To what, where: vale, cry, 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 (disciple, maiden, distress), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Huns | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Huns | det |
| 5 | Huns | Hun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 maiden | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 disciple | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 disciple | det |
| 8 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Huns | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Diana | case |
| 10 | Diana | Diana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 disciple | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roaming | punct |
| 12 | roaming | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 disciple | acl |
| 13 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 12 roaming | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 vale | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 vale | det |
| 16 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roaming | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 maiden | punct |
| 18 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Mägdesprung | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Mägdesprung | det |
| 21 | Mägdesprung | Mägdesprung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hears | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cry | det |
| 23 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hears | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 distress | case |
| 25 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cry | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 hears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | gerund | a disciple of Diana not said here | the vale | fearlessly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through vale=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | hear | present | a maiden | a cry of distress | the Mägdesprung | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cry=Topic from mägdesprung=Source | |||
| 3 | cry | distress | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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