Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 139
Tales came to their ears of a lady in white, who had been seen at the deserted old Staufenburg.
Who acts: Tales · What happens: come, see, desert · To what, where: ears, lady, deserted old Staufenburg
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 (Tales), 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 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ears | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ears | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lady | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ears | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 white | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lady | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lady | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Staufenburg | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Staufenburg | det |
| 18 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 Staufenburg | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Staufenburg | amod |
| 20 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Tales | Tales's ears of a lady in white | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | a lady in white | the deserted old Staufenburg | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «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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