Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 37
It was during the heat of August, when my friend Josephine and I sat long chatting on a moss-grown stone under Princess Ilse's dark evergreens.
Who acts: shade, friend · What happens: be, sit, chat, grow · To what, where: grown stone
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 (shade, friend), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heat | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heat | cop |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 5 heat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heat | det |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 August | case |
| 7 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heat | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sat | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 sat | advmod |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | Josephine | Josephine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 I | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 friend | conj |
| 15 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heat | conj |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sat | xcomp |
| 17 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sat | advcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 stone | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 stone | det |
| 20 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grown | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 moss | punct |
| 22 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 stone | amod |
| 23 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chatting | obl |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 evergreens | case |
| 25 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ilse | compound |
| 26 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 evergreens | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Ilse | case |
| 28 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 evergreens | amod |
| 29 | evergreens | evergreen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 chatting | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | shade | during the heat; august | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | my friend I | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | chat speech: other | gerund | my friend I not said here | a grown stone | under Princess Ilse's dark evergreens | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | moss compound | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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