Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 17
Ilse laid her lovely head upon Ralf's breast, and gazed up into his face with her wonderful and faithful eyes; Ralf laid his hand upon her shoulder, and beautiful Ilse began her tale.
Who acts: Ilse, Ralf, beautiful Ilse · What happens: lay, gaze up, begin, tell · To what, where: lovely head, breast, hand, shoulder, tale · 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 (Ilse, Ralf, beautiful Ilse), 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 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 head | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 breast | case |
| 7 | Ralf | Ralf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Ralf | case |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gazed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gazed | cc |
| 12 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 gazed | compound:prt |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 face | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gazed | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 faithful | cc |
| 21 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wonderful | conj |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gazed | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 laid | punct |
| 24 | Ralf | Ralf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 laid | nsubj |
| 25 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laid | obj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 shoulder | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 30 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 laid | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 began | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 began | cc |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Ilse | amod |
| 34 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 began | nsubj |
| 35 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 laid | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 tale | nmod:poss |
| 37 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 began | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | Ilse | Ilse's lovely head | Ralf's breast | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon breast=Destination | |||
| 2 | gaze up | past | Ilse not said here | with Ilse's wonderful eyes; into Ralf's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | Ralf | Ralf's hand | Ilse's shoulder | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon shoulder=Destination | |||
| 4 | begin | past | beautiful Ilse | Ilse's tale | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | tell | Ilse | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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