Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 123

They bear the coffin to the convent vaults, the courtiers return to the Court to picture the marvellous beauty of the departed Eva to the Duke and Duchess.

Who acts: sister, courtiers · What happens: bear, return, picture, depart · To what, where: coffin, marvellous beauty

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 (sister, courtiers), 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 bear	nsubj
2	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 coffin	det
4	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bear	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 vaults	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vaults	det
7	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 vaults	compound
8	vaults	vault	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bear	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 return	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 courtiers	det
11	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 return	nsubj
12	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bear	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Court	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Court	det
15	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 return	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 picture	mark
17	picture	picture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 return	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beauty	det
19	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beauty	amod
20	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 picture	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 Eva	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Eva	det
23	departed	depart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Eva	amod
24	Eva	Eva	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 beauty	nmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 Duke	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Duke	det
27	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 picture	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Duchess	cc
29	Duchess	Duchess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Duke	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bear	present	sister	the coffin	to the convent vaults	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Patient
2	return	present	the courtiers		to the Court result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result
3	picture	to-infinitive	the courtiers not said here	the marvellous beauty of the departed Eva	to the Duke and Duchess	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme to duke=be'
4	depart	participle				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 2, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 123