Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 82
We entered the Ilsenstein under a gigantic arch of mountain crystal; a group of white-robed maidens met us, and attended us to the great throne-room.
Who acts: We, group · What happens: enter, robe, meet, attend · To what, where: Ilsenstein, gigantic arch, us
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 (We, group), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ilsenstein | det |
| 4 | Ilsenstein | Ilsenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 arch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 arch | det |
| 7 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arch | amod |
| 8 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 crystal | case |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crystal | compound |
| 11 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arch | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 group | det |
| 14 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 maidens | case |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 robed | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 white | punct |
| 18 | robed | robe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 maidens | amod |
| 19 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 group | nmod |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | parataxis |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 met | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 attended | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 attended | cc |
| 24 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | conj |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 attended | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 room | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 room | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 room | amod |
| 29 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 room | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 throne | punct |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attended | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | We | the Ilsenstein | a gigantic arch of mountain crystal | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ilsenstein=Destination | |||
| 2 | robe | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | meet | past | a group of robed maidens | us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | attend | past | a group of robed maidens not said here | us | to the great throne room | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Goal |
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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