Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 40
I approached the Princess Ilse with the guilt of falsehood on my soul, and she transformed me into the fir against which you are leaning.
Who acts: I, Ilse, you · What happens: approach, transform, lean · To what, where: Princess Ilse, me, fir
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 (I, Ilse, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 approached | nsubj |
| 2 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ilse | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ilse | compound |
| 5 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 approached | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 guilt | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 guilt | det |
| 8 | guilt | guilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 approached | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 falsehood | case |
| 10 | falsehood | falsehood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 guilt | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 soul | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 soul | nmod:poss |
| 13 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 falsehood | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 transformed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 transformed | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 transformed | nsubj |
| 17 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 approached | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 transformed | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 fir | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fir | det |
| 21 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transformed | obl |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 leaning | obl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 leaning | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 leaning | aux |
| 26 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fir | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | I | the Princess Ilse | with the guilt of falsehood on my soul | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ilse=Theme with guilt=Instrument | |||
| 2 | transform | past | Ilse | me | into the fir result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into fir=Result | |||
| 3 | lean | present · progressive | you | the fir | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against which=Location |
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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