Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 106
Seven royal brothers came from England to woo the seven daughters of the king of the Harz mountains, the fame of whose beauty had penetrated even to the English court.
Who acts: Seven royal brothers · What happens: come, woo, penetrate · To what, where: England, seven daughters, beauty
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 (Seven royal brothers), 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 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 brothers | nummod |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brothers | amod |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 woo | mark |
| 8 | woo | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 daughters | det |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 daughters | nummod |
| 11 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 woo | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughters | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountains | det |
| 17 | Harz | Harz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mountains | compound |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 king | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fame | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fame | det |
| 21 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 king | conj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 26 penetrated | mark |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 penetrated | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 penetrated | aux |
| 26 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fame | acl:relcl |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 31 court | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 court | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 court | det |
| 30 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 court | amod |
| 31 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 penetrated | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Seven royal brothers | England | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from england=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | woo | to-infinitive | Seven royal brothers not said here | the seven daughters of the king of the Harz mountains and the fame | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | penetrate | past · perfect · passive | beauty | to the English court | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: subject=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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