Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 48
Once, long centuries ago, a Princess lived in Schloss Hohenstein who was very fond of almonds, but was firmly resolved never to marry, so she invented the following plan.
Who acts: Princess, Schloss · What happens: live, be, resolve, not marry, invent, follow · To what, where: Schloss, following plan
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Schloss), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 lived | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 centuries | amod |
| 4 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 1 Once | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Schloss | case |
| 11 | Schloss | Schloss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 12 | Hohenstein | Hohenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Schloss | flat |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fond | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fond | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 fond | advmod |
| 16 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Schloss | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 almonds | case |
| 18 | almonds | almond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fond | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 resolved | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 resolved | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 resolved | aux:pass |
| 22 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 23 resolved | advmod |
| 23 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lived | conj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 marry | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 marry | mark |
| 26 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 resolved | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 invented | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 invented | advmod |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 invented | nsubj |
| 30 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lived | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 plan | det |
| 32 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 plan | amod |
| 33 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 invented | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Princess | Schloss | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in schloss=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | Schloss | of almonds; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | resolve | past · passive | a Princess not said here | firmly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not marry | to-infinitive | a Princess not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | invent | past | Princess | the following plan | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result | ||||
| 6 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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