Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 61
The broken-hearted _Braut_ refused all other lovers, and to secure peace and freedom declared she would bestow her hand only on the knight who could rescue Brunhilda's crown from the fearful gulf, the Bode Kessel.
Who acts: Braut, peace, knight, Brunhilda · What happens: break, refuse, secure, declare, bestow, rescue · To what, where: other lovers, hand, crown, fearful gulf · 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: who acts (Braut, peace, knight, Brunhilda), 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 broken | det |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 broken | punct |
| 4 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 broken | xcomp |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 refused | punct |
| 6 | Braut | Braut | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 refused | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Braut | flat |
| 8 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broken | conj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 lovers | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lovers | amod |
| 11 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 refused | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 secure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 secure | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 secure | mark |
| 15 | secure | secure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 refused | parataxis |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 declared | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 freedom | cc |
| 18 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 peace | conj |
| 19 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 secure | ccomp |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bestow | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 bestow | aux |
| 22 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 declared | ccomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bestow | obj |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 knight | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 knight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 knight | det |
| 28 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bestow | obl |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 rescue | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 rescue | aux |
| 31 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 knight | acl:relcl |
| 32 | Brunhilda | Brunhilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 crown | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Brunhilda | case |
| 34 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rescue | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 gulf | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 gulf | det |
| 37 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 gulf | amod |
| 38 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rescue | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Kessel | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Kessel | det |
| 41 | Bode | Bode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Kessel | compound |
| 42 | Kessel | Kessel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 gulf | appos |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | hearted property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | refuse | past | Braut | all other lovers | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Theme | ||||
| 3 | secure | to-infinitive | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | past | peace and freedom | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bestow | would | Braut | Braut's hand | on the knight | tree rules | |||
| 6 | rescue | could | the knight | Brunhilda's crown | the fearful gulf | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from gulf=Source | |||
| 7 | crown | Brunhilda | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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