Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 26
Princess Ilse, says another legend, in order to escape the general deluge, fled with her lover to the Brocken.
Who acts: Ilse · What happens: say, escape, flee · To what, where: legend, general deluge · 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), 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 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ilse | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ilse | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 legend | det |
| 6 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 escape | punct |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 escape | mark |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 in | fixed |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 escape | mark |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 deluge | det |
| 13 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deluge | amod |
| 14 | deluge | deluge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 escape | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fled | punct |
| 16 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 escape | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 lover | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lover | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fled | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Brocken | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Brocken | det |
| 22 | Brocken | Brocken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lover | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ilse Princess | another legend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | the general deluge | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme deluge=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | flee | past | with Ilse's lover to the Brocken | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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