Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 107
These princesses were called the Sunbeams of the mountains; and when the English princes arrived in the Felsenburg of their royal father, they found assembled there princes and nobles from Saxony and Thuringia, Franconia and Bohemia, from the banks of the Danube and the amber coasts of the sea.
Who acts: English princes · What happens: call, arrive, assemble · To what, where: princesses, Felsenburg, Brothers, banks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (English princes), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 princesses | det |
| 2 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sunbeams | det |
| 6 | Sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mountains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountains | det |
| 9 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Sunbeams | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 assembled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 assembled | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 arrived | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princes | det |
| 14 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 princes | amod |
| 15 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 arrived | nsubj |
| 16 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 assembled | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Felsenburg | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Felsenburg | det |
| 19 | Felsenburg | Felsenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 arrived | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 father | amod |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Felsenburg | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arrived | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 assembled | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 assembled | aux:pass |
| 27 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 called | conj |
| 28 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 29 princes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 assembled | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 nobles | cc |
| 31 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 princes | conj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 Saxony | case |
| 33 | Saxony | Saxony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 princes | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Thuringia | cc |
| 35 | Thuringia | Thuringia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Saxony | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Franconia | punct |
| 37 | Franconia | Franconia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Saxony | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Bohemia | cc |
| 39 | Bohemia | Bohemia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Saxony | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 banks | punct |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 banks | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 banks | det |
| 43 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 assembled | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Danube | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Danube | det |
| 46 | Danube | Danube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 banks | nmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 coasts | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 coasts | det |
| 49 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 coasts | compound |
| 50 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 Danube | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 sea | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 sea | det |
| 53 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 coasts | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | this princesses | the Sunbeams of the mountains xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the English princes | the Felsenburg of Sunbeams's royal father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | assemble | past · passive | Brothers = brother | the banks of the Danube and the amber coasts of the sea | there's princes and nobles obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary prince=Product from bank=Material |
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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