Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 11
Why do they not descend when the queen of the stars illuminates our palace?'
Who acts: nymphs, queen · What happens: not descend, illuminate · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nymphs, queen), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 descend | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 descend | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 descend | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 descend | advmod |
| 5 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 illuminates | advcl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 illuminates | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 illuminates | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 stars | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stars | det |
| 11 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 queen | nmod |
| 12 | illuminates | illuminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 illuminates | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 illuminates | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 illuminates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not descend | present · do-support | nymphs = nymph | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | illuminate | present | the queen of the stars | our palace | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Destination |
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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