Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 19
The new moon rose and the stars appeared one after another in the dark-blue heavens; fair Ilse chatted on, related the legends of the Harz--of the giants and dwarfs.
Who acts: new moon rose, fair Ilse · What happens: appear, chat on, relate · To what, where: one, blue heavens, legends
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 (new moon rose, fair 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rose | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rose | amod |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | compound |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stars | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stars | det |
| 7 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | conj |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 appeared | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 heavens | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heavens | det |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 blue | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 dark | punct |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heavens | amod |
| 17 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 appeared | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 chatted | punct |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Ilse | amod |
| 20 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 chatted | nsubj |
| 21 | chatted | chat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 appeared | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 chatted | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 related | punct |
| 24 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appeared | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 legends | det |
| 26 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 related | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Harz | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Harz | det |
| 29 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 legends | nmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 giants | punct |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 giants | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 giants | det |
| 33 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 legends | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dwarfs | cc |
| 35 | dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 giants | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the new moon rose and the stars | one | the blue heavens | after another | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | ||
| 2 | chat on speech: other | participle | fair Ilse | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | relate | past | the new moon rose and the stars not said here | the legends of the Harz of the giants and dwarfs | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=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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