Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 116
Early in the morning the White Maiden stood on the cliffs, making her footprints in the rock, and sang gaily.
Who acts: White Maiden · What happens: stand, make, sing · To what, where: cliffs, footprints, rock
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 (White Maiden), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Maiden | det |
| 6 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Maiden | amod |
| 7 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 cliffs | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cliffs | det |
| 11 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stood | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 footprints | nmod:poss |
| 15 | footprints | footprint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 making | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 making | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sang | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sang | cc |
| 21 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 22 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sang | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the White Maiden | the cliffs | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on cliff=Location | ||
| 2 | make | gerund | the White Maiden not said here | Princess's footprints | the rock | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset footprint=Product | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the White Maiden not said here | gaily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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