Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 16, sentence 5
The classic wood-singers fill the air with wondrous melodies.
Who acts: classic wood singers · What happens: fill · To what, where: air
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 (classic wood singers), 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 | 5 singers | det |
| 2 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 singers | amod |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 singers | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | singers | singer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fill | nsubj |
| 6 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fill | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 melodies | case |
| 10 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 melodies | amod |
| 11 | melodies | melody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fill | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | present | the classic wood singers | the air | with wondrous melodies | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with melody=Instrument |
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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