Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 79
It was long before the wanderer noticed these surrounding beauties of the morning, for a heavy sorrow lay at his heart.
Who acts: peace, wanderer · What happens: be, notice, surround, lay · To what, where: surrounding beauties, heart
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 (peace, wanderer), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | cop |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 noticed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wanderer | det |
| 6 | wanderer | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noticed | nsubj |
| 7 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 long | advcl |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 beauties | det |
| 9 | surrounding | surround | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 beauties | amod |
| 10 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 noticed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beauties | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 sorrow | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sorrow | det |
| 17 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sorrow | amod |
| 18 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 19 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 noticed | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | peace | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notice | past | the wanderer | this surrounding beauties of the morning | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | surround | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | lay | present | wanderer's heart | for a heavy sorrow | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sorrow=Beneficiary |
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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