Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 15

Of a truly kingly character, she constrained her agony to silence, but hoped ever for deliverance through the return of her Harz lover; still he came not.

Who acts: Brunhilda, bridegroom, Harz lover · What happens: constrain, hope, not come, return · To what, where: agony, return

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 (Brunhilda, bridegroom, Harz lover), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	5 character	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 character	det
3	truly	truly	ADV	_	4 kingly	advmod
4	kingly	kingly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 character	amod
5	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 constrained	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 character	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 constrained	nsubj
8	constrained	constrain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 agony	nmod:poss
10	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 constrained	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 silence	mark
12	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 agony	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hoped	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 hoped	cc
15	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 constrained	conj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 hoped	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 deliverance	case
18	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hoped	obl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 return	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 return	det
21	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hoped	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 lover	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 lover	nmod:poss
24	Harz	Harz	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 lover	compound
25	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 return	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	still	still	ADV	_	29 came	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 constrained	conj
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 came	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 constrained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	constrain	past	Brunhilda	Brunhilda's agony silence			of a kingly character	vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer agony=Patient
2	hope	past	Brunhilda not said here		the return of Brunhilda's Harz lover	ever	for deliverance	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for deliverance=Theme
3	not come	past	bridegroom			still		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	return		Brunhilda's Harz lover					nom return «communication 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 15