Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 15, sentence 96
The light of thy eyes is dimmed by a tear; heavy and anxious rests thy curly head on thy snowy arm; as the heavenly glory crowns the head of a martyred saint, so the splendour of sunset bathes thy form.
Who acts: heavy rests, curly head, heavenly glory, thy · What happens: dim, rest, crown, martyr, light, form · To what, where: light, head, eyes
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 (heavy rests, curly head, heavenly glory, thy), 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 | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dimmed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 light | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dimmed | aux:pass |
| 7 | dimmed | dim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 tear | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tear | det |
| 10 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dimmed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 rests | punct |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rests | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 anxious | cc |
| 14 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 heavy | conj |
| 15 | rests | rest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dimmed | obl:agent |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 head | amod |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rests | nsubj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 arm | case |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 arm | nmod:poss |
| 21 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 arm | amod |
| 22 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 crowns | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 crowns | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 glory | det |
| 26 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 glory | amod |
| 27 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crowns | nsubj |
| 28 | crowns | crown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dimmed | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 head | det |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crowns | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 saint | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 saint | det |
| 33 | martyred | martyr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 saint | amod |
| 34 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 head | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 splendour | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 splendour | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 splendour | det |
| 38 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crowns | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 bathes | case |
| 40 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bathes | compound |
| 41 | bathes | bathe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 splendour | nmod |
| 42 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 form | nmod:poss |
| 43 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bathes | appos |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dimmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dim | present · passive | heavy rests | the light of thy eyes | by a tear | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | rest | thy curly head on thy snowy arm | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | crown | present | the heavenly glory | the head of a martyred saint | the splendour of sunset bathes obl | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 4 | martyr | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | light | thy eyes | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | form | thy | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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