Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 92
How her bridal veil and ribbons fluttered and shimmered in the wind and sun, as she in the joy of her heart, light of foot as a fawn, flew over the meadow, pursued by her laughing companions.
Who acts: bridal veil · What happens: flutter, shimmer, fly, pursue, laugh, joy · To what, where: wind, meadow, heart, foot
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 (bridal veil), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 fluttered | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 veil | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 veil | amod |
| 4 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fluttered | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ribbons | cc |
| 6 | ribbons | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 veil | conj |
| 7 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shimmered | cc |
| 9 | shimmered | shimmer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fluttered | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fluttered | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sun | cc |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wind | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 joy | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 joy | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 joy | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 joy | det |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fluttered | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 heart | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heart | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 joy | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 light | punct |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 joy | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 foot | case |
| 27 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 light | nmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 fawn | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fawn | det |
| 30 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 light | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 flew | punct |
| 32 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 light | parataxis |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 meadow | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 meadow | det |
| 35 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flew | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 pursued | punct |
| 37 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 meadow | acl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 companions | case |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 companions | nmod:poss |
| 40 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 companions | amod |
| 41 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 pursued | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fluttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | participle | party's bridal veil and ribbons | the wind and sun | the joy party of party's heart and light of foot as a fawn parataxis | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | |||
| 2 | shimmer | participle | party's bridal veil and ribbons not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | the meadow | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over meadow=Location | |||||
| 4 | pursue | participle | the meadow not said here | by party's laughing companions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by companion=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | joy | party's heart | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | light | foot | as a fawn | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient as=obl |
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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