Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 111
At midnight, when the full moon shone, each brother, with his affianced bride behind him on his fleet steed, fled toward the rocky shores of England.
Who acts: full moon · What happens: shine, affiance, flee · To what, where: brother, rocky shores
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 (full moon), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 midnight | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 shone | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moon | amod |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | nsubj |
| 8 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brother | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 brother | det |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bride | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bride | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bride | nmod:poss |
| 15 | affianced | affiance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 bride | amod |
| 16 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shone | obl |
| 17 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bride | nmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 steed | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 steed | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fleet | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 steed | amod |
| 22 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bride | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fled | punct |
| 24 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shone | conj |
| 25 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 28 shores | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shores | det |
| 27 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shores | amod |
| 28 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 fled | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 England | case |
| 30 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 shores | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the full moon | each brother | midnight | with moon's affianced bride behind combat on combat's fleet steed | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with bride=Theme | ||
| 2 | affiance | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | flee | past | the full moon not said here | the rocky shores of England | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward shore=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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