Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 74
A lovely spring morning dawned joyously over the castle of the Marshal Adam von Trotta--or Troth--of Brandenburg, but sorrow housed within it, for the lady of the castle must die.
Who acts: sorrow, lady · What happens: dawn, house, die · To what, where: lovely spring morning, castle, Troth
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrow, lady), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 2 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | compound |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Troth | nsubj |
| 5 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 morning | acl |
| 6 | joyously | joyously | ADV | _ | 5 dawned | advmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dawned | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Trotta | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Trotta | det |
| 12 | Marshal | Marshal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Adam | compound |
| 13 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Trotta | compound |
| 14 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 15 Trotta | compound |
| 15 | Trotta | Trotta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Troth | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 Troth | cc |
| 18 | Troth | Troth | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 Brandenburg | punct |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Brandenburg | case |
| 21 | Brandenburg | Brandenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Troth | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 housed | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 housed | cc |
| 24 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 housed | nsubj |
| 25 | housed | house | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Troth | acl:relcl |
| 26 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 housed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lady | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 lady | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lady | det |
| 31 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 housed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 castle | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 castle | det |
| 34 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 die | obl |
| 35 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 die | aux |
| 36 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 lady | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Troth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | a lovely spring morning not said here | the castle of the Adam von Trotta | joyously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over castle=Location | |||
| 2 | house | past | sorrow | Troth a lovely spring morning not said here | within Trotta; for the lady | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location troth=Value | |||
| 3 | die | must | the lady not said here | of the castle | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of castle=Causer |
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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