Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 100
They found the amulet thrown up from the unfathomable deeps, and carried it to the unhappy maiden, who without a tear turned her steps to the holy retreat of Kloster Wenthusen, and was never seen again.
Who acts: howlings, Krone · What happens: find, throw up, carry, turn, not see, step · To what, where: amulet, unfathomable deeps, unhappy maiden, steps, holy retreat
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 (howlings, Krone), 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 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 amulet | det |
| 4 | amulet | amulet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 amulet | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 thrown | compound:prt |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 deeps | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 deeps | det |
| 9 | unfathomable | unfathomable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deeps | amod |
| 10 | deeps | deep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thrown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 maiden | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 17 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 maiden | amod |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 carried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turned | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 turned | nsubj |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 tear | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tear | det |
| 23 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obl |
| 24 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 maiden | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 steps | nmod:poss |
| 26 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 turned | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 retreat | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 retreat | det |
| 29 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 retreat | amod |
| 30 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 turned | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Kloster | case |
| 32 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 retreat | nmod |
| 33 | Wenthusen | Wenthusen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Kloster | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 seen | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 seen | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 seen | aux:pass |
| 37 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 38 seen | advmod |
| 38 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 carried | conj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 38 seen | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | howlings = howling | the amulet | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amulet=Topic | ||||
| 2 | throw up | participle | the amulet not said here | the unfathomable deeps | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | amulet | the unhappy maiden | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to maiden=Destination | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | Krone's steps | the holy retreat of Kloster | without a tear; who nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to retreat=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | not see | past · passive | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | step | Krone | nom step «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.
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