Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 92

They laid the mother in the old family vault; husband and children brought immortelles and roses for her coffin, and left her to her cold but safe repose.

Who acts: beams, husband, mother · What happens: lay, bring, leave, repose · To what, where: mother, old family vault, immortelles, cold repose

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 (beams, husband, mother), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laid	nsubj
2	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 vault	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vault	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vault	amod
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vault	compound
9	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laid	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 children	cc
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 husband	conj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laid	parataxis
15	immortelles	immortelle	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 brought	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 roses	cc
17	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 immortelles	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 coffin	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 coffin	nmod:poss
20	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 left	cc
23	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 brought	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 left	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	30 repose	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 repose	nmod:poss
27	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 repose	amod
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 safe	cc
29	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cold	conj
30	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	beams = beam	the mother		the old family vault		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mother=Theme in vault=Destination
2	bring	past	husband and children	immortelles and roses			for mother's coffin	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent immortelle=Theme
3	leave	past	husband and children not said here	mother	mother's cold repose			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to repose=Recipient
4	repose		mother					nom repose «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 92

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 92