Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 29
There sat Brunhilda in her glittering robes, the golden crown still upon her head, her white veil and golden hair fluttering in the wind, in her fearless courage and queenly beauty, upon the snowy steed before the open gates.
Who acts: white veil · What happens: sit, flutter · To what, where: Brunhilda, glittering robes, wind
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 (white veil), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 sat | expl |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Brunhilda | Brunhilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 robes | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 robes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | glittering | glittering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 robes | compound |
| 7 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crown | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crown | amod |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 robes | conj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 2 sat | advmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 veil | punct |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 veil | nmod:poss |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 veil | amod |
| 19 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hair | cc |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hair | amod |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 veil | conj |
| 23 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 veil | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 wind | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wind | det |
| 26 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fluttering | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 courage | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 courage | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 courage | nmod:poss |
| 30 | fearless | fearless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 courage | amod |
| 31 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 beauty | cc |
| 33 | queenly | queenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beauty | amod |
| 34 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 courage | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 steed | punct |
| 36 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 steed | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 steed | det |
| 38 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 steed | amod |
| 39 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | conj |
| 40 | before | before | ADP | _ | 43 gates | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 gates | det |
| 42 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 gates | amod |
| 43 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sat | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Brunhilda | Brunhilda's glittering robes and the golden crown; there | before the open gates; still | upon Brunhilda's head; Brunhilda's white veil and golden hair conj; Brunhilda's fearless courage and queenly beauty parataxis; the snowy steed conj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent brunhilda=Theme in robe=Location | ||
| 2 | flutter | gerund | Brunhilda's white veil and golden hair not said here | the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location |
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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