Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 107
The bridegroom places the nuptial ring on the bride's hand; kneeling they receive the priest's blessing, the young wife rises Frau von Kirchberg, and after remaining some days in concealment in the convent, she escapes in the disguise of a monk to Schloss Staufenburg.
Who acts: bridegroom places, flashes, young wife, wife, priest · What happens: kneel, receive, rise, remain, escape, bless · To what, where: blessing, Frau, concealment, disguise
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridegroom places, flashes, young wife, wife), 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 | 3 places | det |
| 2 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 places | compound |
| 3 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 kneeling | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 5 | nuptial | nuptial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ring | amod |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 places | appos |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bride | det |
| 9 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 bride | case |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ring | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 kneeling | punct |
| 13 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 receive | nsubj |
| 15 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 kneeling | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 priest | case |
| 19 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receive | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rises | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wife | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wife | amod |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rises | nsubj |
| 24 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 blessing | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Frau | Frau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 rises | obj |
| 26 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 25 Frau | flat |
| 27 | Kirchberg | Kirchberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Frau | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 escapes | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 escapes | cc |
| 30 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 31 remaining | mark |
| 31 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 escapes | advcl |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 days | det |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 remaining | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 concealment | case |
| 35 | concealment | concealment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remaining | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 convent | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 convent | det |
| 38 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 concealment | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 remaining | punct |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 escapes | nsubj |
| 41 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 rises | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 disguise | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 disguise | det |
| 44 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 escapes | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 monk | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 monk | det |
| 47 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 disguise | nmod |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 Schloss | case |
| 49 | Schloss | Schloss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 monk | nmod |
| 50 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Schloss | flat |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 kneeling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | gerund | the bridegroom places | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | receive | present | flashes = flash | the priest's blessing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | present | the young wife | Frau | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location frau=Theme | ||||
| 4 | remain | gerund | wife not said here | concealment in the convent | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in concealment=Location | |||
| 5 | escape | present | wife | the disguise of a monk to Schloss | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bless | the priest | nom blessing «act transitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/19/107/