Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 1, sentence 7
After his departure, there arrived a new suitor for Brunhilda's hand, whom her father feared to reject.
Who acts: father, king · What happens: arrive, fear, reject, depart · To what, where: new suitor
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 (father, king), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 departure | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 departure | nmod:poss |
| 3 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 departure | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 arrived | expl |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 suitor | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 suitor | amod |
| 9 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 11 | Brunhilda | Brunhilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Brunhilda | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suitor | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feared | punct |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 feared | obj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feared | nsubj |
| 18 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 suitor | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 reject | mark |
| 20 | reject | reject | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 feared | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | a new suitor | there | after king's departure | for Brunhilda's hand | tree rules | ||
| 2 | fear | past | Brunhilda's father | a new suitor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reject | to-infinitive | Brunhilda's father not said here | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | depart | king | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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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