Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 87
Fountains played, white-robed maidens moved among the fruit and flowers, or reclined on banks of violets and roses.
Who acts: Fountains, robed maidens · What happens: play, robe, move, recline · To what, where: fruit, banks
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 (Fountains, robed maidens), 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 | Fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 robed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 white | punct |
| 6 | robed | robe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 maidens | amod |
| 7 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 played | parataxis |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 fruit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fruit | det |
| 11 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flowers | cc |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fruit | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reclined | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 reclined | cc |
| 16 | reclined | recline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 moved | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 banks | case |
| 18 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reclined | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 violets | case |
| 20 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 banks | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roses | cc |
| 22 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 banks | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Fountains | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | robe | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | move | past | robed maidens | the fruit and flowers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among fruit=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | recline | participle | robed maidens not said here | banks of violets and roses | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=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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