Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 4
Soon after, as a shepherd was feeding his sheep on a meadow near, a blooming, quiet maiden came and gathered flowers, which she bound in a garland; approaching him, and looking kindly at him, she let a flower fall.
Who acts: shepherd, blooming quiet maiden, maiden · What happens: feed, bloom, come, gather, bind, approach · To what, where: sheep, meadow, flowers, flower fall
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 (shepherd, blooming quiet maiden, maiden), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADV | _ | 1 Soon | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 feeding | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shepherd | det |
| 6 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeding | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 feeding | aux |
| 8 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 came | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeding | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 meadow | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 meadow | det |
| 13 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeding | obl |
| 14 | near | near | ADV | _ | 13 meadow | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 feeding | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 17 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 maiden | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blooming | punct |
| 19 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maiden | amod |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gathered | cc |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 24 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gathered | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bound | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 bound | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bound | nsubj |
| 28 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 garland | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 garland | det |
| 31 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bound | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 approaching | punct |
| 33 | approaching | approach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 came | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 approaching | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 looking | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 looking | cc |
| 37 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 approaching | conj |
| 38 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 37 looking | advmod |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 looking | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 let | punct |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 let | nsubj |
| 43 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 fall | det |
| 45 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fall | compound |
| 46 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 let | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past · progressive | a shepherd | shepherd's sheep | a meadow | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | a blooming quiet maiden | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gather | past | a blooming quiet maiden not said here | flowers | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bind | past | maiden | flowers | in a garland | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Destination in garland=Theme | |||
| 6 | approach | gerund | a blooming quiet maiden not said here | sheep | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | look | gerund | a blooming quiet maiden not said here | at shepherd; kindly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 8 | let | past | maiden | a flower fall | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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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