Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 96
A group of fair maidens sat in a rose arbour playing harp, lute, and harpsichord, while others stood by the table in attendance.
Who acts: group, rose arbour, others · What happens: sit, play, stand · To what, where: rose arbour, harp, attendance
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 (group, rose arbour, others), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 group | det |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 maidens | case |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maidens | amod |
| 5 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 group | nmod |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 arbour | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arbour | det |
| 9 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arbour | compound |
| 10 | arbour | arbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 11 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 arbour | acl |
| 12 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 playing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lute | punct |
| 14 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 harp | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 harpsichord | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 harpsichord | cc |
| 17 | harpsichord | harpsichord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arbour | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stood | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 stood | mark |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 table | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 table | det |
| 24 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 attendance | case |
| 26 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stood | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a group of fair maidens | a rose arbour and harpsichord | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arbour=Location | ||||
| 2 | play | gerund | a rose arbour and harpsichord not said here | harp and lute | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | others | attendance | by the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by table=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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