Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 28

The Ritter Knaught had a lovely little daughter, whose chief pleasure was to gather wild-flowers; for this purpose she went often with her nurse into the forest.

Who acts: Ritter Knaught, lovely little daughter, Knaught · What happens: have, gather, go, please · To what, where: lovely little daughter, wild flowers, forest

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 (Ritter Knaught, lovely little daughter, Knaught), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Knaught	det
2	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Knaught	compound
3	Knaught	Knaught	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 daughter	det
6	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 daughter	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 daughter	amod
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pleasure	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 pleasure	nmod:poss
11	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pleasure	amod
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	appos
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pleasure	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 gather	mark
15	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 was	xcomp
16	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flowers	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 wild	punct
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 gather	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 purpose	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 purpose	det
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
25	often	often	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 nurse	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nurse	nmod:poss
28	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 forest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 forest	det
31	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Ritter Knaught	a lovely little daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	gather	to-infinitive	a lovely little daughter not said here	wild flowers			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
3	go	past	Knaught		the forest	for this purpose; with Knaught's nurse; often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
4	please		a lovely little daughter				nom pleasure «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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 28