Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 108
But the Sunbeams loved the English princes, and promised to go with them to their father's court.
Who acts: Sunbeams · What happens: love, promise, go · To what, where: English princes, court
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 (Sunbeams), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 loved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sunbeams | det |
| 3 | Sunbeams | Sunbeam | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princes | det |
| 6 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 princes | amod |
| 7 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loved | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 promised | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 promised | cc |
| 10 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 promised | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 father | case |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | the Sunbeams | the English princes | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the Sunbeams not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sunbeams not said here | Sunbeams's father's court | with Sunbeams = sunbeam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location |
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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