Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 14, sentence 70
Wonderful, never-before-seen flowers nodded to him in greeting from their slender stalks, and bent before him their lovely heads.
Who acts: Wonderful seen flowers · What happens: see, nod, greet, bend · To what, where: man, slender stalks, lovely heads
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 (Wonderful seen flowers), 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 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flowers | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flowers | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 flowers | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 never | punct |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 before | punct |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flowers | amod |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nodded | nsubj |
| 9 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 nodded | obl |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 greeting | mark |
| 13 | greeting | greet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 nodded | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 stalks | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 stalks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stalks | amod |
| 17 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 greeting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bent | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bent | cc |
| 20 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 nodded | conj |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bent | obl |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heads | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heads | amod |
| 25 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bent | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | nod | past | Wonderful seen flowers | man | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | gerund | Wonderful seen flowers not said here | flowers's slender stalks | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bend | participle | Wonderful seen flowers not said here | flowers's lovely heads | before man | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme before he=Location |
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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