Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 138
The report of her charms attracted the attention of the brave Egbert, who had built on the Klus near Halberstadt a strong castle.
Who acts: report, attention, brave Egbert · What happens: attract, build, report, attend · To what, where: attention, strong castle, Klus, charms
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 (report, attention, brave Egbert), 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 report | det |
| 2 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attracted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 charms | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 charms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 report | nmod |
| 6 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 attention | det |
| 8 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attracted | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Egbert | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Egbert | det |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Egbert | amod |
| 12 | Egbert | Egbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 attention | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 built | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 built | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 built | aux |
| 16 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 attention | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 Klus | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Klus | det |
| 19 | Klus | Klus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obl |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 Halberstadt | case |
| 21 | Halberstadt | Halberstadt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Klus | nmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 castle | amod |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 built | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past | the report of report's charms | the attention of the brave Egbert | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | ||||
| 2 | build | past · perfect | the attention of the brave Egbert | a strong castle | the Klus near Halberstadt | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent castle=Theme on klus=Source | |||
| 3 | report | report's charms | nom report «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | attend | the brave Egbert | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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