Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 119
Poor Trude, from the balcony by her mother's side, saw her faithless Ralf carried down the torrent, threw herself over after him, and when the flood had subsided the widow found them in each other's arms, washed up on the banks of the river.
Who acts: Poor Trude, faithless Ralf, widow · What happens: see, carry down, throw over, subside, find, wash up · To what, where: torrent, Trude, flood, floods, other arms, banks · 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 (Poor Trude, faithless Ralf, 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Trude | amod |
| 2 | Trude | Trude | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 balcony | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 balcony | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 balcony | det |
| 6 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Trude | appos |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 balcony | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Trude | punct |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Ralf | nmod:poss |
| 15 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Ralf | amod |
| 16 | Ralf | Ralf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 torrent | det |
| 20 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carried | conj |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 threw | obj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 threw | compound:prt |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 subsided | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 subsided | cc |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 subsided | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 flood | det |
| 31 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 subsided | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 subsided | aux |
| 33 | subsided | subside | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 found | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 widow | det |
| 35 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 found | nsubj |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | parataxis |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 found | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 arms | case |
| 39 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 arms | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 arms | amod |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 other | case |
| 42 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 found | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 washed | punct |
| 44 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 arms | acl |
| 45 | up | up | ADP | _ | 44 washed | compound:prt |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 48 banks | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 banks | det |
| 48 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 washed | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 river | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 river | det |
| 51 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 banks | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Poor Trude | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | carry down | past | Trude's faithless Ralf | the torrent | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torrent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw over | past | Trude's faithless Ralf not said here | Trude | after Ralf | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 4 | subside | past · perfect · passive | the flood | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | past | the widow | floods = flood | each other arms | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 6 | wash up | participle | each other arms not said here | the banks of the river | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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