Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 105
Ah! not cold and hard was her heart; pure and tender, as the dewdrops in the lily, it lay in her innocent breast, and adorned the morning of her life, till the sunny fire of love smiled down upon her.
Who acts: heart, lily, love · What happens: be, lie, adorn, smile down · To what, where: innocent breast
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 (heart, lily, 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 cold | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hard | cc |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 pure | punct |
| 11 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tender | cc |
| 13 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dewdrops | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 dewdrops | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dewdrops | det |
| 17 | dewdrops | dewdrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cold | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lily | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lily | det |
| 20 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dewdrops | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 23 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 breast | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 breast | nmod:poss |
| 26 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 breast | amod |
| 27 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 adorned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 adorned | cc |
| 30 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lay | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 morning | det |
| 32 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 adorned | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 life | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 life | nmod:poss |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 morning | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fire | punct |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 40 fire | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fire | det |
| 39 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fire | amod |
| 40 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 adorned | parataxis |
| 41 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 43 smiled | mark |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 smiled | nsubj |
| 43 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fire | advcl |
| 44 | down | down | ADV | _ | 43 smiled | advmod |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 46 her | case |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 smiled | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | sun's heart | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lie | past | lily | sun's innocent breast | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in breast=Location | ||||
| 3 | adorn | past | lily not said here | morning | the sunny fire parataxis | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | smile down | past | love | upon sun; down property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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