Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 97
A pearl plate was handed us, and Princess Ilse herself poured the crimson wine into gilded crystal goblets bearing her monogram in diamonds and sapphires, touched her glass to mine, and saying, "I drink to thy happiness," she pressed her own glass to my lips, when lo!
Who acts: Princess, gilded crystal goblets, I · What happens: hand, pour, gild, bear, touch, say · To what, where: pearl plate, us, crimson wine, gilded crystal goblets, monogram, diamonds · 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 (Princess, gilded crystal goblets, I), 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 | 3 plate | det |
| 2 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plate | compound |
| 3 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | aux:pass |
| 5 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 handed | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 poured | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 poured | cc |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 poured | nsubj |
| 10 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Princess | flat |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 Princess | nmod |
| 12 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 handed | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wine | det |
| 14 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wine | compound |
| 15 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poured | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 goblets | case |
| 17 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 goblets | amod |
| 18 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goblets | compound |
| 19 | goblets | goblet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 poured | obl |
| 20 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 goblets | acl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 monogram | nmod:poss |
| 22 | monogram | monogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bearing | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 diamonds | case |
| 24 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bearing | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sapphires | cc |
| 26 | sapphires | sapphire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 diamonds | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 touched | punct |
| 28 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 poured | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 glass | nmod:poss |
| 30 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 touched | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 mine | case |
| 32 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 touched | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 saying | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 saying | cc |
| 35 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 handed | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 drink | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 drink | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 drink | nsubj |
| 39 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 saying | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 happiness | case |
| 41 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 42 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 drink | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 pressed | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 pressed | punct |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 pressed | nsubj |
| 46 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 drink | advcl |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 glass | nmod:poss |
| 48 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 glass | amod |
| 49 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 pressed | obj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 lips | case |
| 51 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 lips | nmod:poss |
| 52 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 pressed | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 lo | punct |
| 54 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 55 lo | advmod |
| 55 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 35 saying | discourse |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | past · passive | a pearl plate | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pour | past | Princess Princess | the crimson wine | gilded crystal goblets | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent wine=Theme into goblet=Destination | |||
| 3 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | gilded crystal goblets not said here | Princess's monogram | diamonds and sapphires | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monogram=Patient | |||
| 5 | touch | past | Princess Princess not said here | Princess's glass | mine | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Co-Theme | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | drink in a quote | present | I | to thy happiness | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | press | past | Princess | Princess's own glass | to my lips | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Theme |
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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