Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 130

Each princess planted a tree by her lover's grave, and when seven moons were passed away, one evening, as they sat by the graves, suddenly they felt a great joy spring up within them; they wiped away their tears, but from them seven springs bubbled up sparkling and clear.

Who acts: princess, trees · What happens: plant, pass away, sit, feel up, wipe away, bubble up · To what, where: tree, seven moons, tears, trees

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 (princess, trees), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	nsubj
3	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 grave	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lover	nmod:poss
8	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grave	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 lover	case
10	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 planted	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 passed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 passed	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 passed	advmod
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 moons	nummod
15	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 passed	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passed	aux:pass
17	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 planted	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 passed	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 evening	punct
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 evening	nummod
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 sat	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passed	parataxis
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 graves	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 graves	det
28	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sat	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 felt	punct
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	32 felt	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	nsubj
32	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sat	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 spring	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spring	amod
35	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spring	compound
36	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 felt	obj
37	up	up	ADP	_	32 felt	compound:prt
38	within	within	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 felt	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 wiped	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wiped	nsubj
42	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 planted	conj
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 wiped	advmod
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 tears	nmod:poss
45	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 wiped	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 bubbled	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 bubbled	cc
48	from	from	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 bubbled	nsubj:pass
50	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 springs	nummod
51	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 bubbled	nsubj:pass
52	bubbled	bubble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 wiped	parataxis
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 bubbled	compound:prt
54	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 bubbled	advcl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 clear	cc
56	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 bubbled	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	plant	past	each princess	a tree		by Princess's lover's grave	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme by grave=Destination
2	pass away	past · passive		seven moons	evening	away property	tree rules
3	sit	past	trees = tree			by the graves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by grave=Location
4	feel up	past	trees = tree		spring	within lovers = lover; suddenly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	wipe away	past	trees = tree	trees's tears		away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
6	bubble up	participle · passive		trees = tree			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source
7	sparkle	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 130