Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 137
In the time of Charlemagne there lived in Blanka a maiden called Thusnelda.
What happens: live, call · To what, where: maiden, Blanka · 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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Charlemagne | case |
| 5 | Charlemagne | Charlemagne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Blanka | case |
| 9 | Blanka | Blanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 maiden | acl |
| 13 | Thusnelda | Thusnelda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a maiden | Blanka; there | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme maiden=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a maiden not said here | Thusnelda xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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