Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 1, sentence 94
The bud had blossomed into a wonderful flower, the pride of the desolate father's heart.
What happens: blossom, desolate, pride · To what, where: bud, wonderful flower, heart
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: 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 | 2 bud | det |
| 2 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blossomed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blossomed | aux |
| 4 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 flower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 flower | det |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flower | amod |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blossomed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pride | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pride | det |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flower | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 14 | desolate | desolate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 father | compound |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 father | case |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pride | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blossomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blossom | past · perfect · passive | the bud | a wonderful flower | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | desolate | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | pride | the desolate father's heart | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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