Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 128
The princesses returned to their father's castle, but hated the murderers of their English lovers.
Who acts: princesses · What happens: return, hate · To what, where: murderers
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 (princesses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princesses | det |
| 2 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 father | case |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hated | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 hated | cc |
| 11 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 murderers | det |
| 13 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hated | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lovers | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lovers | amod |
| 17 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 murderers | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the princesses | to rivals's father's castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 2 | hate | past | the princesses not said here | the murderers of rivals's English lovers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer murderer=Stimulus |
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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