Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 1

Where the Innerste, which springs from the Barenbruche, approaches her issue from the Harz, she quickens her course, flowing among steep, well-wooded mountains in youthful mirth, or silently over sands, playing with the water-violets, which from the damp moss bend their blue heads in the crystal ripples.

Who acts: Innerste · What happens: approach, quicken, flow, wood, play, bend · To what, where: issue, Harz, course, steep, water violets, damp moss

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Innerste), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 approaches	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Innerste	det
3	Innerste	Innerste	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 approaches	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 springs	punct
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 springs	det
6	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Innerste	appos
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Barenbruche	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Barenbruche	det
9	Barenbruche	Barenbruche	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 springs	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Innerste	punct
11	approaches	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 issue	nmod:poss
13	issue	issue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 approaches	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Harz	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Harz	det
16	Harz	Harz	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 issue	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 quickens	punct
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 quickens	nsubj
19	quickens	quicken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 approaches	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 course	nmod:poss
21	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 quickens	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flowing	punct
23	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 quickens	advcl
24	among	among	ADP	_	25 steep	case
25	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flowing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mountains	punct
27	well	well	INTJ	_	30 mountains	discourse
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 well	punct
29	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 mountains	amod
30	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 approaches	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 mirth	case
32	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mirth	amod
33	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 mountains	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sands	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 sands	cc
36	silently	silently	ADV	_	38 sands	advmod
37	over	over	ADP	_	38 sands	case
38	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 mountains	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 playing	punct
40	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 approaches	advcl
41	with	with	ADP	_	45 violets	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 violets	det
43	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 violets	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 water	punct
45	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 playing	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bend	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 bend	obj
48	from	from	ADP	_	51 moss	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 moss	det
50	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 moss	amod
51	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 bend	obl
52	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 violets	acl:relcl
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 heads	nmod:poss
54	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 heads	amod
55	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 bend	obj
56	in	in	ADP	_	59 ripples	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 ripples	det
58	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 ripples	amod
59	ripples	ripple	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 bend	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 approaches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	present	the Innerste	Innerste's issue	the Harz	wooded mountains in youthful mirth or sands conj	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Theme
2	quicken	present	Innerste	Innerste's course			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent course=Patient
3	flow	gerund	Innerste not said here		steep		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among steep=Location
4	wood	participle					tree rules
5	play	gerund	the Innerste not said here			with the water violets	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with violet=Theme
6	bend	present		the water violets	the damp moss	in the crystal ripples; violets's blue heads obj	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Patient head=Result
7	issue		Innerste		the Harz		nom issue «cognition transitive»: poss=agent from=place

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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 1