Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 84
The floor was of white and red roses, which were not crushed by the tread, but remained ever in rich fulness.
Who acts: floor, tread · What happens: be, not crush, remain · To what, where: white roses, rich fulness
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 (floor, tread), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roses | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 roses | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 roses | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 roses | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 red | cc |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 white | conj |
| 8 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crushed | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 crushed | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 crushed | advmod |
| 13 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 roses | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 tread | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tread | det |
| 16 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crushed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remained | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 remained | cc |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 crushed | conj |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 remained | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 fulness | case |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fulness | amod |
| 23 | fulness | fulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remained | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 roses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the floor | of white roses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not crush | past · passive | the tread | white roses | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | the tread not said here | rich fulness | ever | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fulness=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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