Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 2, sentence 91
The moon had risen, and bathed the night in her mystic light; the stars looked mournfully down on the betrayed maiden.
Who acts: stars, Wolfenbüttel · What happens: rise, bath, look, betray, light · To what, where: moon, mystic light
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 (stars, Wolfenbüttel), 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 moon | det |
| 2 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 risen | aux |
| 4 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bathed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bathed | cc |
| 7 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 risen | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bathed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 light | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 light | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 light | amod |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bathed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stars | det |
| 16 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 risen | parataxis |
| 18 | mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 19 down | advmod |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 looked | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 maiden | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 maiden | det |
| 22 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 maiden | amod |
| 23 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect · passive | the moon | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bath | past | Wolfenbüttel's mystic light | night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the stars | on the betrayed maiden; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on maiden=Theme | ||||
| 4 | betray | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | light | Wolfenbüttel | nom light «phenomenon 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.
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