Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 58
It happened at last that a foreign prince saw Huldigunde, and found her fair, and saw through the trick.
Who acts: It, foreign prince · What happens: happen, see, find · To what, where: last, Huldigunde, trick
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 (It, foreign prince), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 last | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 happened | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 7 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 prince | amod |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 10 | Huldigunde | Huldigunde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 found | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 trick | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trick | det |
| 21 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | last | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a foreign prince | Huldigunde | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer huldigunde=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | find | past | fair property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | past | the trick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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