Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 7, sentence 6
Then he saw three maidens sitting under the green roof of a maple tree, silent and mournful; their eyes were wet as if dewdrops hung in the drooping eyelashes; they uttered complaining words in soft tones like the rustling of the night wind in the leaves.
Who acts: warrior, three maidens, eyes, trees · What happens: see, sit, be, hang, droop, utter · To what, where: three maidens, green roof, dewdrops, drooping eyelashes, words, soft tones
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 (warrior, three maidens, eyes, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 maidens | nummod |
| 5 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 maidens | acl |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roof | amod |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sitting | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | maple | maple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roof | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 silent | punct |
| 16 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mournful | cc |
| 18 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 silent | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wet | punct |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wet | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wet | cop |
| 23 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 26 dewdrops | case |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 as | fixed |
| 26 | dewdrops | dewdrop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wet | obl |
| 27 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 dewdrops | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 eyelashes | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 eyelashes | det |
| 30 | drooping | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 eyelashes | amod |
| 31 | eyelashes | eyelash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hung | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 uttered | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 uttered | nsubj |
| 34 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 35 | complaining | complain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 uttered | xcomp |
| 36 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 complaining | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 tones | case |
| 38 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tones | amod |
| 39 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 complaining | obl |
| 40 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 rustling | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 rustling | det |
| 42 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tones | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 wind | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wind | det |
| 45 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 wind | compound |
| 46 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rustling | nmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 leaves | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 leaves | det |
| 49 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 wind | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | warrior | three maidens | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | three maidens not said here | the green roof of a maple tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under roof=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | trees's eyes | as dewdrops; wet property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hang | participle | dewdrops not said here | the drooping eyelashes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eyelash=Location | ||||
| 5 | droop | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | utter speech: other | past | trees = tree | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | complain speech: other | gerund | trees = tree not said here | words | soft tones like the rustling of the night wind in the leaves | tree rules | |||
| 8 | rustle | the night wind in the leaves | nom rustling «act 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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