Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 35
"And many a fir tree's deepest shade Falls o'er the crystal stream; Enchanted by the pure mermaid, Their fate to moan they seem."
Who acts: Falls, fir tree · What happens: enchant, moan, seem, shade, fate · 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 (Falls, fir tree), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 many | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 many | cc |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shade | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 8 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 shade | amod |
| 9 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Falls | nsubj |
| 10 | Falls | Falls | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 many | advcl |
| 11 | o'er | o'er | ADP | _ | 14 stream | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stream | det |
| 13 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stream | amod |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Falls | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Enchanted | punct |
| 16 | Enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 many | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 mermaid | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mermaid | det |
| 19 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mermaid | amod |
| 20 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Enchanted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fate | punct |
| 22 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fate | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mermaid | appos |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 moan | mark |
| 25 | moan | moan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fate | acl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seem | nsubj |
| 27 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 moan | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 many | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant in a quote | participle | by the pure mermaid | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | moan in a quote | to-infinitive | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | Falls | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | shade in a quote | a fir tree | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | fate in a quote | Falls | nom fate «event transitive»: 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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