Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 103
Soon the joy at these nightly assemblies was changed to sorrow, and when the moonlight called the fairy forms of wood-nymphs and mermaids into life, they wept together over their vanished sisters and friends, and not one was sure that the following day the same sad fate would not be her destiny.
Who acts: moonlight, one, same sad fate · What happens: change, sorrow, call, weep, vanish, be · To what, where: joy, fairy forms, life, destiny, wood nymphs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (moonlight, one, same sad fate), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 changed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 joy | det |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 assemblies | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 assemblies | det |
| 6 | nightly | nightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 assemblies | amod |
| 7 | assemblies | assembly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 joy | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | aux:pass |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sorrow | mark |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 changed | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wept | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 wept | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 wept | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 moonlight | det |
| 16 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 wept | nsubj |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 moonlight | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forms | det |
| 19 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 forms | amod |
| 20 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 nymphs | case |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nymphs | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 wood | punct |
| 24 | nymphs | nymph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forms | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 mermaids | cc |
| 26 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 nymphs | conj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wept | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 wept | nsubj |
| 31 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | conj |
| 32 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 wept | advmod |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 sisters | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 35 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 sisters | amod |
| 36 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 wept | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 friends | cc |
| 38 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sisters | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sure | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sure | cc |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 one | advmod |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 sure | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sure | cop |
| 44 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 wept | conj |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 day | mark |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 day | det |
| 47 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 day | amod |
| 48 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sure | ccomp |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 fate | det |
| 50 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 fate | amod |
| 51 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 fate | amod |
| 52 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 destiny | nsubj |
| 53 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 destiny | aux |
| 54 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 57 destiny | advmod |
| 55 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 57 destiny | cop |
| 56 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 57 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 day | acl:relcl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · passive | the joy at this nightly assemblies | soon property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sorrow | to-infinitive | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | the moonlight not said here | the fairy forms of wood nymphs and mermaids | life | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Topic into life=Recipient | |||
| 4 | weep | past | the moonlight | over mermaids's vanished sisters and friends; mermaids = mermaid nsubj; together property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | vanish | participle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | one | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | not is a | would | the same sad fate | form's destiny | form nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 9 | form | wood nymphs and mermaids | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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