Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 4

Wild lettuce, yellow and red, grows next the round shave-grass, and the water-lily and mallow rock themselves on the fragrant banks; on the rocky mountain wall shimmers the white-browed swallow-wort, the saxifrage, and the yellow wall-pepper; from the mossy ground of the forest spring the flaming purple toad-stool, the agaric, and the pale goat's-beard.

Who acts: Wild lettuce, flaming · What happens: grow, shimmer, brow, stool · To what, where: water lily, mossy ground, browed swallow wort, rocky mountain wall

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 (Wild lettuce, flaming), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lettuce	amod
2	lettuce	lettuce	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yellow	punct
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lettuce	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 red	cc
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 yellow	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lettuce	punct
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	next	next	ADP	_	14 grass	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
11	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 grass	amod
12	shave	shave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grass	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 shave	punct
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lily	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lily	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lily	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lily	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 water	punct
20	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rock	cc
22	mallow	mallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rock	compound
23	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lily	conj
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	23 rock	nmod:unmarked
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 banks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 banks	det
27	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 banks	amod
28	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lily	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 shimmers	punct
30	on	on	ADP	_	34 wall	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wall	det
32	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wall	amod
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wall	compound
34	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shimmers	obl
35	shimmers	shimmer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grows	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 wort	det
37	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 browed	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 white	punct
39	browed	brow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 wort	amod
40	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wort	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 swallow	punct
42	wort	wort	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shimmers	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 saxifrage	punct
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 saxifrage	det
45	saxifrage	saxifrage	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 wort	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 pepper	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 pepper	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 pepper	det
49	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 pepper	amod
50	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pepper	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 wall	punct
52	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shimmers	obl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 ground	punct
54	from	from	ADP	_	57 ground	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 ground	det
56	mossy	mossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 ground	amod
57	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	61 spring	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 spring	det
60	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 spring	compound
61	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ground	nmod
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 stool	det
63	flaming	flaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 stool	nsubj
64	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 stool	amod
65	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 stool	compound
66	-	-	PUNCT	_	65 toad	punct
67	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 spring	conj
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 agaric	punct
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 agaric	det
70	agaric	agaric	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 stool	appos
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 beard	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 beard	cc
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 beard	det
74	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 beard	amod
75	goat's	goat's	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 beard	compound
76	-	-	PUNCT	_	75 goat's	punct
77	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 ground	conj
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Wild lettuce	the water lily on the fragrant banks and mallow rock lily	the mossy ground of the forest spring and the purple toad stool and the pale goat's beard	next the round shave grass	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme next grass=Location
2	shimmer	present	Wild lettuce not said here	the browed swallow wort and the saxifrage	the rocky mountain wall	the yellow wall pepper obl	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wort=Theme
3	brow	participle					tree rules
4	stool		flaming			the agaric appos	tree rules

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 4