Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 99

On the banks of the brook which flowed past his path sat a lovely maiden clad in white, and bathed her marble-white feet in the crystal water.

Who acts: brook, banks · What happens: flow, sit, bath · To what, where: white feet, crystal water

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 (brook, banks), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 banks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 banks	det
3	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 brook	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brook	det
6	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 banks	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flowed	nsubj
8	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brook	acl:relcl
9	past	past	ADP	_	11 path	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 path	nmod:poss
11	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flowed	obl
12	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 clad	det
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clad	amod
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clad	amod
16	clad	clad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sat	ccomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 white	case
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clad	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bathed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bathed	cc
21	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sat	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 feet	nmod:poss
23	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 white	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 marble	punct
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feet	amod
26	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bathed	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
29	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 water	amod
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bathed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flow	past	the brook			past bank's path	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	the banks of the brook				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bath	past	the banks of the brook not said here	singer's white feet	the crystal water		tree rules

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 99

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 99