Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 100

Creatures of tender form and rare beauty--not so ethereal as the air, not so material as man--danced lightly, as if borne by the breezes, through the woods, which were their possession, intimately interwoven with their existence, for they grew with the trees which they inhabited, and drooped and died with them.

Who acts: material, woods, men, trees · What happens: not dance, bear, be, interweave, grow, inhabit · To what, where: woods, possession, Creatures

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (material, woods, men, trees), 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	Creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 form	case
3	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	compound
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Creatures	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beauty	cc
6	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beauty	amod
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Creatures	conj
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 ethereal	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ethereal	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 ethereal	advmod
11	ethereal	ethereal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beauty	appos
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ethereal	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 danced	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 danced	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	22 danced	advmod
18	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 danced	nsubj
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 man	case
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 material	nmod
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 danced	punct
22	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ethereal	conj
23	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	22 danced	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 borne	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 borne	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 borne	mark
27	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 danced	parataxis
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 breezes	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 breezes	det
30	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 borne	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 woods	punct
32	through	through	ADP	_	34 woods	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 woods	det
34	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 borne	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 possession	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 possession	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 possession	cop
38	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 possession	nmod:poss
39	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 woods	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 interwoven	punct
41	intimately	intimately	ADV	_	42 interwoven	advmod
42	interwoven	interweave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 borne	conj
43	with	with	ADP	_	45 existence	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 existence	nmod:poss
45	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 interwoven	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 grew	punct
47	for	for	SCONJ	_	49 grew	mark
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 grew	nsubj
49	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 interwoven	parataxis
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 trees	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 trees	det
52	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 grew	obl
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 inhabited	nsubj
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 inhabited	nsubj
55	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 trees	acl:relcl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 drooped	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 drooped	cc
58	drooped	droop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 grew	conj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 died	cc
60	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 drooped	conj
61	with	with	ADP	_	62 them	case
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 died	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Creatures	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not dance	past	material as man			lightly property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear a condition, not said to happen	participle			the woods and men's possession	by the breezes	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	the woods and men's possession	men's possession		men = man nmod:poss	tree rules
4	interweave	participle				with men's existence; intimately property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with existence=Co-Patient
5	grow	past	men = man			with the trees	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	inhabit	past	the trees			men = man nsubj	tree rules
7	droop	past	men = man not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	die	past	men = man not said here			with men = man	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
10	exist		men = man				nom existence «state 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 100

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 100