Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 88
Often he kidnapped maidens, and it was not at all unwelcome to him, as one day, while he lay in vain in wait for booty, a troop of young girls showed itself near the wood where he lay hidden.
Who acts: Arno, maiden, troop · What happens: kidnap, not be, lie, show, hide · To what, where: maidens, Arno, unwelcome, vain, troop
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 (Arno, maiden, troop), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 3 kidnapped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kidnapped | nsubj |
| 3 | kidnapped | kidnap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kidnapped | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 unwelcome | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 unwelcome | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 unwelcome | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 unwelcome | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 unwelcome | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 unwelcome | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 unwelcome | det |
| 12 | unwelcome | unwelcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kidnapped | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 unwelcome | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 day | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kidnapped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 lay | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kidnapped | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 vain | case |
| 24 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lay | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 wait | case |
| 26 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 showed | obl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 booty | case |
| 28 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wait | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 troop | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 troop | det |
| 31 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 showed | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 girls | case |
| 33 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 girls | amod |
| 34 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 troop | nmod |
| 35 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lay | advcl |
| 36 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 showed | obj |
| 37 | near | near | ADP | _ | 39 wood | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wood | det |
| 39 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 showed | obl |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 lay | advmod |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 lay | nsubj |
| 42 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 wood | acl:relcl |
| 43 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 lay | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kidnapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kidnap | past | Arno | maidens | day | often property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | ||
| 2 | not is | past | maiden | Arno | all unwelcome | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie | past | Arno | vain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location | ||||
| 4 | show | past | a troop of young girls | troop | near the wood; in wait for booty | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in wait=Topic | |||
| 5 | lie | past | Arno | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | hide | participle | Arno not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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