Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 25
A wild and lawless knight of the Castle Hainerburg surprised Hildegard alone at home, her father and brothers being absent in the terrors of a fire in the city, and carried her off in a deadly swoon to his castle.
Who acts: wild knight, father · What happens: surprise, be, carry off · To what, where: Hildegard, home, terrors, happiness, deadly swoon
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild knight, father), 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 | 5 knight | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knight | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 lawless | cc |
| 4 | lawless | lawless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wild | conj |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surprised | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Hainerburg | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hainerburg | det |
| 8 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Hainerburg | compound |
| 9 | Hainerburg | Hainerburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knight | nmod |
| 10 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Hildegard | Hildegard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 surprised | obj |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 surprised | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 surprised | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 father | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 absent | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brothers | cc |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 father | conj |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 absent | cop |
| 21 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 surprised | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 terrors | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 terrors | det |
| 24 | terrors | terror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 absent | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 fire | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fire | det |
| 27 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 terrors | nmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 city | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 city | det |
| 30 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fire | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 carried | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 carried | cc |
| 33 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 surprised | parataxis |
| 34 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 carried | obj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 carried | compound:prt |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 swoon | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 swoon | det |
| 38 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 swoon | amod |
| 39 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 castle | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 castle | nmod:poss |
| 42 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | past | a wild knight of the Castle Hainerburg | Hildegard | home | alone property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hildegard=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | is | gerund | happiness's father and brothers | the terrors of a fire in the city | absent property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry off | past | happiness | a deadly swoon | to knight's castle | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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