Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 50
I came here to the Harz mountains, hoping to find favour with the noble Ilse after my heroic deed in freeing my country from a tyrant; but the Princess called my act murder, and I have been a sighing fir tree ever since."
Who acts: I, heroic deed, Princess, my · What happens: come, hope, find, free, call, sigh · To what, where: Harz mountains, favour, country, tyrant, act murder, sighing fir tree · 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 (I, heroic deed, Princess, my), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mountains | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountains | det |
| 6 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 mountains | compound |
| 7 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hoping | punct |
| 9 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 find | mark |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hoping | xcomp |
| 12 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 noble | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 noble | det |
| 15 | noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 16 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 noble | flat |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 deed | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 deed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deed | amod |
| 20 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 freeing | mark |
| 22 | freeing | free | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 deed | acl |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 freeing | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 tyrant | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 tyrant | det |
| 27 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 freeing | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Princess | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 Princess | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Princess | det |
| 31 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 32 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 Princess | acl |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 murder | nmod:poss |
| 34 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 murder | compound |
| 35 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 called | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 tree | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 tree | cc |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 tree | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 tree | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 tree | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 tree | det |
| 42 | sighing | sigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 tree | amod |
| 43 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 tree | compound |
| 44 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Princess | appos |
| 45 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 46 since | advmod |
| 46 | since | since | ADV | _ | 44 tree | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 tree | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Princess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | the Harz mountains; here | the Princess parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hope | gerund | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | favour | after my heroic deed | with the noble | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | ||
| 4 | free | gerund | my heroic deed not said here | my country | a tyrant | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer country=Source | |||
| 5 | call | participle | the Princess not said here | my act murder | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent murder=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | sigh | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is a | present · perfect | I | a sighing fir tree | ever | since property | tree rules | ||
| 8 | murder | my | nom murder «act 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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