Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 77
Aurora showed her gaily laughing and blushing face above the green mountains, a balsamic freshness floated over the valleys and streams, the peaks of the woody heights swam in the blue ether, and the dew-bathed mountain flowers sparkled in the sun's golden splendour.
Who acts: Aurora, peaks · What happens: show, blush, float, swim, bath, sparkle · To what, where: gaily laughing, face, green mountains, balsamic freshness, valleys, blue ether
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 (Aurora, peaks), 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 | Aurora | Aurora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | nsubj |
| 2 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 laughing | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 laughing | amod |
| 5 | laughing | laughing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 showed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blushing | cc |
| 7 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 laughing | conj |
| 8 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blushing | obj |
| 9 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 11 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mountains | amod |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 face | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 freshness | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 freshness | det |
| 15 | balsamic | balsamic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 freshness | amod |
| 16 | freshness | freshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughing | conj |
| 17 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 freshness | acl |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 valleys | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 valleys | det |
| 20 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 floated | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 streams | cc |
| 22 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 valleys | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 peaks | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 peaks | det |
| 25 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 swam | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 heights | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 heights | det |
| 28 | woody | woody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 heights | amod |
| 29 | heights | height | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 peaks | nmod |
| 30 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 valleys | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 ether | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ether | det |
| 33 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 ether | amod |
| 34 | ether | ether | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 swam | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sparkled | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sparkled | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 flowers | det |
| 38 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bathed | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 dew | punct |
| 40 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 flowers | amod |
| 41 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 flowers | compound |
| 42 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 sparkled | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 showed | conj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 splendour | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 sun | det |
| 46 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 splendour | nmod:poss |
| 47 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 46 sun | case |
| 48 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 splendour | amod |
| 49 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sparkled | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Aurora | Aurora's gaily laughing and a balsamic freshness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent laughing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | blush | gerund | Aurora not said here | face | the green mountains | tree rules | |||
| 3 | float | participle | a balsamic freshness not said here | the valleys and streams | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over valley=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | swim | past | the peaks of the woody heights | the valleys and streams not said here | the blue ether | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme valley=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | bath | participle | dew compound | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sparkle | participle · passive | the bathed mountain flowers | the sun's golden splendour | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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