Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 33
The fair Hildegard retired to the Brücken Kloster, where she died; and still the maidens of Mühlhausen sing many a song of her beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the _Kirchweihfest_.
Who acts: fair Hildegard, Virgin, maidens, beauty · What happens: retire, die, sing, dance · To what, where: many song, Kirchweihfest
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 (fair Hildegard, Virgin, maidens, beauty), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hildegard | det |
| 2 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hildegard | amod |
| 3 | Hildegard | Hildegard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 retired | nsubj |
| 4 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Kloster | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Kloster | det |
| 7 | Brücken | Brücken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kloster | compound |
| 8 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 retired | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 died | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 died | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 died | nsubj |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Kloster | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 maidens | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 maidens | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 maidens | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maidens | det |
| 17 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sing | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mühlhausen | case |
| 19 | Mühlhausen | Mühlhausen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 maidens | nmod |
| 20 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 retired | parataxis |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 song | amod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 song | det |
| 23 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sing | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 beauty | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 26 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 song | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fate | cc |
| 28 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fate | amod |
| 29 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beauty | conj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 dance | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 dance | det |
| 32 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dance | amod |
| 33 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fate | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Kirchweihfest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Kirchweihfest | det |
| 36 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 37 Kirchweihfest | punct |
| 37 | Kirchweihfest | Kirchweihfest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 dance | nmod |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 sing | discourse |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past | the fair Hildegard | to the Brücken Kloster | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Virgin | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the maidens of Mühlhausen | a many song of Virgin's beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the Kirchweihfest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing | Virgin's beauty and singular fate at the joyful dance of the Kirchweihfest | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | dance | the Kirchweihfest | nom dance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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