Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 21
In the grey of the morning, as he awoke, he heard still the murmuring tones of the Princess, and as he turned to salute the princely maiden, he saw, instead of Ilse, a crystal-clear bubbling spring illuminated with the dawn.
Who acts: Ralf · What happens: awake, hear, turn, salute, see, illuminate · To what, where: grey, murmuring tones, princely maiden, crystal clear bubbling spring, Princess
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 (Ralf), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 grey | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grey | det |
| 3 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 awoke | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grey | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 awoke | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 awoke | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 awoke | nsubj |
| 10 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 awoke | conj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 heard | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tones | det |
| 16 | murmuring | murmuring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tones | amod |
| 17 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heard | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Princess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 tones | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 saw | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 turned | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 saw | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 salute | mark |
| 27 | salute | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 turned | xcomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 maiden | det |
| 29 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 maiden | amod |
| 30 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 salute | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 saw | nsubj |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 awoke | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Ilse | punct |
| 35 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 37 Ilse | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 instead | fixed |
| 37 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 saw | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 spring | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 spring | det |
| 40 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 spring | amod |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 crystal | punct |
| 42 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 spring | amod |
| 43 | bubbling | bubbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spring | compound |
| 44 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Ilse | appos |
| 45 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 spring | acl |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 dawn | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 dawn | det |
| 48 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 illuminated | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Ralf | the grey of the morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grey=Location | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Ralf | the murmuring tones of the Princess | still | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | turn | past | Ralf | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | salute | to-infinitive | Ralf not said here | the princely maiden | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Topic | ||||
| 5 | see | past | Ralf | Ilse parataxis | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | illuminate | participle | a crystal clear bubbling spring not said here | dawn | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | intonate | the Princess | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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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