Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 33
Whoever approaches her with impure heart, she sprinkles with water, and instantly he turns into a fir tree.
Who acts: Whoever, youth, mortal · What happens: approach, sprinkle, turn · To what, where: youth, fir tree
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 (Whoever, youth, mortal), 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 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 approaches | nsubj |
| 2 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 approaches | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | impure | impure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 heart | amod |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approaches | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sprinkles | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sprinkles | nsubj |
| 9 | sprinkles | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 approaches | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sprinkles | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turns | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 turns | cc |
| 14 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 16 turns | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 turns | nsubj |
| 16 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 approaches | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 19 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turns | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 approaches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | present | Whoever | youth | with impure heart | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Theme with heart=Instrument | |||
| 2 | sprinkle | present | youth | with water | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | mortal | a fir tree | instantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tree=Trajectory |
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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