Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 38

It was a lovely morning; the lambs played with the wild flowers, the birds sang so joyfully in the neighbouring wood, the breezes were so mild and odorous, that the hearts of the shepherds were filled with an unusual gladness, and they both began to play a sacred air on their reed pipes.

Who acts: mountain, lambs, birds, breezes, Shepherds · What happens: be, play, sing, neighbour, fill, begin · To what, where: lovely morning, neighbouring wood, hearts, sacred air, reed pipes

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 (mountain, lambs, birds, breezes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 morning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 morning	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 morning	det
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 morning	amod
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lambs	det
8	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 played	nsubj
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 morning	parataxis
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 flowers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flowers	det
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 played	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sang	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sang	nsubj
17	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 played	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 joyfully	advmod
19	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	17 sang	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
22	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 wood	amod
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sang	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mild	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 breezes	det
26	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 mild	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mild	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 mild	advmod
29	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sang	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 odorous	cc
31	odorous	odorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mild	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 filled	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 filled	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hearts	det
35	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 filled	nsubj:pass
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 shepherds	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shepherds	det
38	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hearts	nmod
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 filled	aux:pass
40	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 mild	conj
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 gladness	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 gladness	det
43	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 gladness	amod
44	gladness	gladness	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 filled	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 began	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 began	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 began	nsubj
48	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	49 began	nsubj
49	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 played	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 play	mark
51	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 began	xcomp
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 air	det
53	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 air	amod
54	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 play	obj
55	on	on	ADP	_	58 pipes	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 pipes	nmod:poss
57	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 pipes	compound
58	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 play	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mountain	a lovely morning			tree rules
2	play	past	the lambs			with the wild flowers	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the birds		the neighbouring wood	joyfully property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location
4	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
5	is	past	the breezes			mild property	tree rules
6	be		the breezes not said here				tree rules
7	fill	past · passive		the hearts of the shepherds		with a unusual gladness	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gladness=Instrument
8	begin	past	Shepherds = shepherd				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	play	to-infinitive	Shepherds = shepherd not said here	a sacred air	Shepherds's reed pipes		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 38

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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 38