Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 107
The nuptials were near, and the widow was busy with the bride's trousseau, when unexpectedly with Autumn arrived the foreign Prince and fair Ilse from their mysterious journey.
Who acts: nuptials, widow · What happens: be, arrive, journey · To what, where: foreign Prince, mysterious journey
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuptials, widow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nuptials | det |
| 2 | nuptials | nuptial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 busy | cop |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 were | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 busy | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 busy | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 widow | det |
| 8 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 busy | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 busy | cop |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 trousseau | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trousseau | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 bride | case |
| 15 | trousseau | trousseau | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 busy | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arrived | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 unexpectedly | advmod |
| 18 | unexpectedly | unexpectedly | ADV | _ | 21 arrived | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Autumn | case |
| 20 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | obl |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 busy | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Prince | det |
| 23 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Prince | amod |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Ilse | cc |
| 26 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Ilse | amod |
| 27 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Prince | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 journey | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 journey | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 journey | amod |
| 31 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the nuptials | with the bride's trousseau; the widow nsubj; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the nuptials not said here | the foreign Prince and fair Ilse | widow's mysterious journey | with Autumn; unexpectedly property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | journey | widow | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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