Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 23
And when he espied Jutta with her lute descend into the castle garden, and wander into the wood, he rushed to meet her, and lived a blissful hour in listening to her voice and lute, and she at last confessed she loved him with all her heart.
Who acts: Ernst, Jutta · What happens: espy, descend, wander, rush, meet, live · To what, where: Jutta, castle garden, wood, Ernst
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 (Ernst, Jutta), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 descend | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 espied | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 espied | nsubj |
| 4 | espied | espy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 descend | advcl |
| 5 | Jutta | Jutta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 espied | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 lute | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lute | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 espied | obl |
| 9 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 garden | compound |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 descend | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wander | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wander | cc |
| 16 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 descend | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 wood | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wander | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rushed | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 rushed | nsubj |
| 22 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wander | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 meet | mark |
| 24 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rushed | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 meet | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lived | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lived | cc |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rushed | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hour | det |
| 30 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hour | amod |
| 31 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obj |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 33 listening | mark |
| 33 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 lived | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 voice | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 voice | nmod:poss |
| 36 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 listening | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 lute | cc |
| 38 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 voice | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 confessed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 confessed | cc |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 confessed | nsubj |
| 42 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 44 confessed | mark |
| 43 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 confessed | amod |
| 44 | confessed | confess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 descend | conj |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 loved | nsubj |
| 46 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 confessed | ccomp |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 loved | obj |
| 48 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 heart | case |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 51 heart | det:predet |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 heart | nmod:poss |
| 51 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 loved | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 descend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | espy | past | Ernst | Jutta | with Jutta's lute | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jutta=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | descend | present | the castle garden | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Location | |||||
| 3 | wander | present | the wood | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | |||||
| 4 | rush | past | Ernst | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | Ernst not said here | Jutta | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | live | past | Ernst not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | listen | gerund | Ernst not said here | to Jutta's voice and lute | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to voice=Theme | ||||
| 8 | confess | participle | Jutta | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | love | past | Jutta | Ernst | with Jutta's heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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