Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 119
At these words the strange apparition touched a shrub that stretched forth its dried, thorny branches, when instantly leaves and buds burst forth, and soon the whole shrub was loaded with most beautiful roses, that breathed forth a wondrous and unwonted perfume.
Who acts: strange apparition, shrub, buds, most beautiful roses · What happens: touch, stretch, dry, leave, burst, load · To what, where: shrub, words, whole shrub, wondrous perfume
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange apparition, shrub, buds, most beautiful roses), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 touched | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 apparition | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 apparition | amod |
| 6 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | nsubj |
| 7 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shrub | det |
| 9 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stretched | nsubj |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shrub | acl:relcl |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 stretched | advmod |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dried | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 stretched | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 branches | punct |
| 16 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 branches | amod |
| 17 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shrub | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leaves | punct |
| 19 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 leaves | mark |
| 20 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 21 leaves | advmod |
| 21 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shrub | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 burst | cc |
| 23 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 burst | nsubj |
| 24 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 leaves | conj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 burst | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 loaded | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 loaded | cc |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 loaded | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 shrub | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 shrub | amod |
| 31 | shrub | shrub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 loaded | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 loaded | aux:pass |
| 33 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 touched | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 roses | case |
| 35 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 roses | amod |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 roses | amod |
| 37 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 loaded | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 breathed | punct |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 breathed | nsubj |
| 40 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 roses | acl:relcl |
| 41 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 40 breathed | advmod |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 perfume | det |
| 43 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 perfume | amod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 unwonted | cc |
| 45 | unwonted | unwonted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 wondrous | conj |
| 46 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 breathed | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | the strange apparition | a shrub and thorny branches | this words | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shrub=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | a shrub and thorny branches | forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dry | participle | a shrub and thorny branches not said here | apparition nmod:poss | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | present | instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | burst | present | buds | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | load | past · passive | the whole shrub | with most beautiful roses; soon property | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with rose=Theme | ||||
| 7 | breathe | past | most beautiful roses | a wondrous perfume | forth property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=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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