Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 11
Beautiful Ilse tarried a whole year in the richly adorned subterranean world, witnessed the mysterious government, policy, and life of the fairies, the creations and destructions by the king of the giants, the hostile relations of the Fairy Queen to the Giant King, the unhappy loves of her children Rumar and Romar, and what she could not understand the amiable Queen explained to her, and introduced her fully to the fairy world.
Who acts: Beautiful Ilse, unhappy, Ilse, amiable Queen · What happens: tarry, adorn, witness, love, not understand, explain · To what, where: life, adorned subterranean world, mysterious government, Giant King, Ilse, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Beautiful Ilse, unhappy, Ilse, amiable Queen), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ilse | amod |
| 2 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tarried | nsubj |
| 3 | tarried | tarry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 year | amod |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tarried | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 9 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 10 adorned | advmod |
| 10 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 world | amod |
| 11 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 world | amod |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tarried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 witnessed | punct |
| 14 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tarried | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 government | det |
| 16 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 government | amod |
| 17 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 witnessed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 policy | punct |
| 19 | policy | policy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 government | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 life | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 life | cc |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tarried | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fairies | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fairies | det |
| 25 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 life | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 creations | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 creations | det |
| 28 | creations | creation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fairies | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 destructions | cc |
| 30 | destructions | destruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fairies | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 king | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 king | det |
| 33 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 life | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 giants | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 giants | det |
| 36 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 king | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 relations | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 relations | det |
| 39 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 relations | amod |
| 40 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 giants | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Queen | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Queen | det |
| 43 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Queen | compound |
| 44 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 relations | nmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 King | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 King | det |
| 47 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 King | amod |
| 48 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 relations | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 loves | punct |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 unhappy | det |
| 51 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 loves | nsubj |
| 52 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 King | acl:relcl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 children | case |
| 54 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 children | nmod:poss |
| 55 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 loves | obl |
| 56 | Rumar | Rumar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 children | appos |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 Romar | cc |
| 58 | Romar | Romar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 Rumar | conj |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 understand | punct |
| 60 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 understand | cc |
| 61 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 65 understand | obj |
| 62 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 65 understand | nsubj |
| 63 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 65 understand | aux |
| 64 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 65 understand | advmod |
| 65 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 loves | parataxis |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 68 Queen | det |
| 67 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 Queen | amod |
| 68 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 69 explained | nsubj |
| 69 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 65 understand | ccomp |
| 70 | to | to | ADP | _ | 71 her | case |
| 71 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 69 explained | obl |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 introduced | punct |
| 73 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 introduced | cc |
| 74 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tarried | parataxis |
| 75 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 74 introduced | obj |
| 76 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 74 introduced | advmod |
| 77 | to | to | ADP | _ | 80 world | case |
| 78 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 80 world | det |
| 79 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 80 world | amod |
| 80 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 74 introduced | obl |
| 81 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tarried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tarry | past | Beautiful Ilse | life of the fairies and the creations and destructions by the king of the giants | the adorned subterranean world | year | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in world=Location | ||
| 2 | adorn | participle | richly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | witness | past | Beautiful Ilse not said here | the mysterious government and policy | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | love | present | the unhappy | the Giant King not said here | of Queen's children | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | not understand | could | Ilse | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | explain speech: assert | past | the amiable Queen | Ilse | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | introduce | past | Queen | to the fairy world; fully property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient to world=Co-Patient |
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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