Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 10
This dreadful lover brought the Princess costly gifts of gold, amber, and precious stones.
Who acts: dreadful lover · What happens: bring, gift · To what, where: Princess costly gifts, gold
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreadful lover), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 lover | det |
| 2 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lover | amod |
| 3 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gifts | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gifts | compound |
| 7 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gifts | amod |
| 8 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gifts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 amber | punct |
| 12 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stones | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stones | cc |
| 15 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stones | amod |
| 16 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brought | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | this dreadful lover | the Princess costly gifts of gold and amber | precious stones obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | |||
| 2 | gift | gold and amber | nom gift «possession 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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