Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 24
Her blood boils, and in the anguish of her soul the brave Hun maiden leaps the abyss, falls like an avenging angel upon the villainous mountaineers, with two blows of her spear pierces them both to the heart, and conducts her friend and favourite--for she is said to have been a Hun Queen--home to her parents.
Who acts: blood, brave Hun maiden, soul, spear pierces · What happens: boil, leap, fall, avenge, conduct, say · To what, where: abyss, anguish, friend, maiden, Hun Queen · 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 (blood, brave Hun maiden, soul, spear pierces), 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 | 2 blood | nmod:poss |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boils | nsubj |
| 3 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaps | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leaps | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 anguish | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 anguish | det |
| 8 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaps | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 soul | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 soul | nmod:poss |
| 11 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 anguish | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maiden | det |
| 13 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 maiden | amod |
| 14 | Hun | Hun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 maiden | compound |
| 15 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaps | nsubj |
| 16 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boils | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 abyss | det |
| 18 | abyss | abyss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaps | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 falls | punct |
| 20 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 leaps | conj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 angel | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 angel | det |
| 23 | avenging | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 angel | amod |
| 24 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 falls | obl |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 mountaineers | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountaineers | det |
| 27 | villainous | villainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mountaineers | amod |
| 28 | mountaineers | mountaineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 angel | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 blows | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 blows | case |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 blows | nummod |
| 32 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 falls | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 pierces | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 pierces | nmod:poss |
| 35 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pierces | compound |
| 36 | pierces | pierce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 blows | nmod |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pierces | conj |
| 38 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 them | appos |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 heart | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 heart | det |
| 41 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pierces | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 conducts | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 conducts | cc |
| 44 | conducts | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boils | parataxis |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 friend | nmod:poss |
| 46 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 conducts | obj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 favourite | cc |
| 48 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 friend | conj |
| 49 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 53 said | punct |
| 50 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 53 said | mark |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 said | nsubj |
| 52 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 said | aux:pass |
| 53 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 conducts | parataxis |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 59 Queen | mark |
| 55 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 59 Queen | aux |
| 56 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 59 Queen | cop |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 Queen | det |
| 58 | Hun | Hun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Queen | compound |
| 59 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 said | parataxis |
| 60 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 61 home | punct |
| 61 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 Queen | appos |
| 62 | to | to | ADP | _ | 64 parents | case |
| 63 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 64 parents | nmod:poss |
| 64 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 61 home | nmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 boils | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | present | maiden's blood | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | leap | present | the brave Hun maiden | the abyss | the anguish of maiden's soul | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme abyss=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fall | present | the brave Hun maiden not said here | like a avenging angel upon the villainous mountaineers; two blows of maiden's spear pierces pierces to the heart conj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | avenge | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | conduct | present | maiden's friend | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present · passive | maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive · perfect | a Hun Queen | home to maiden's parents appos | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | anguish | maiden's soul | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | blow | maiden's spear pierces pierces to the heart | nom blow «act 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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