Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 117

After they had partaken of the repast, three beautiful ladies in rich attire entered, and told the brothers they were accursed and doomed to remain for ever under the earth.

Who acts: Brothers, three beautiful ladies · What happens: partake, enter, tell, accurs, doom, remain · To what, where: brothers, earth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, three beautiful ladies), 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	SCONJ	_	4 partaken	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 partaken	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 partaken	aux
4	partaken	partake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 entered	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 repast	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 repast	det
7	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 partaken	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 partaken	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 ladies	nummod
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ladies	amod
11	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 entered	nsubj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 attire	case
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 attire	amod
14	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ladies	nmod
15	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 entered	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 brothers	det
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 told	iobj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 accursed	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 accursed	aux:pass
23	accursed	accurs	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 told	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 doomed	cc
25	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 accursed	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 remain	mark
27	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 doomed	xcomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 ever	case
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 remain	obl
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 earth	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 earth	det
32	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 remain	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	partake	past · perfect	Brothers = brother				of the repast	tree rules
2	enter	past	three beautiful ladies in rich attire					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	three beautiful ladies in rich attire not said here		the brothers			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	accurs	past · passive		Brothers = brother				tree rules
5	doom	participle						tree rules
6	remain	to-infinitive				the earth		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under earth=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 117

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 4, sentence 117