Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 104
Fairest of the blue-eyed daughters of the Harz, is thy heart cold in presence of the flame of love, as the ice of the Brocken is proof against the sun of the spring-time?
Who acts: Fairest heart, love · What happens: be, flame · To what, where: Fairest heart
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairest heart, love), 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 | Fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 heart | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 daughters | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daughters | det |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyed | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 blue | punct |
| 6 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 daughters | amod |
| 7 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Fairest | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Harz | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Harz | det |
| 10 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 daughters | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fairest | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 heart | cop |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 proof | nsubj |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heart | amod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 presence | case |
| 17 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cold | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 flame | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flame | det |
| 20 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 presence | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flame | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ice | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 ice | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ice | det |
| 26 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Brocken | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Brocken | det |
| 29 | Brocken | Brocken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ice | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 proof | cop |
| 31 | proof | proof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 34 sun | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sun | det |
| 34 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 proof | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 time | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 time | det |
| 37 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 time | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 spring | punct |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sun | nmod |
| 40 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 31 proof | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thy Fairest heart and the ice of the Brocken | thy nmod:poss; the ice of the Brocken conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | thy Fairest heart and the ice of the Brocken | against the sun of the spring time; proof property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flame | love | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=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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