Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 1
When she had finished her song she descended to the shepherd, and asked him if he would rescue her from the enchantment.
Who acts: she, shepherd, her · What happens: finish, descend, ask, rescue, sing · To what, where: song, shepherd, her, enchantment
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she, shepherd, her), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 descended | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 song | nmod:poss |
| 6 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 finished | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 descended | nsubj |
| 8 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 shepherd | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shepherd | det |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descended | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 descended | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 rescue | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rescue | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 rescue | aux |
| 19 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rescue | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 enchantment | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enchantment | det |
| 23 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescue | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | she | her song | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector song=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | descend | past | she | to the shepherd | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shepherd=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | she not said here | shepherd | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | rescue a condition, not said to happen | would | shepherd | her = she | the enchantment | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from enchantment=Source | |||
| 5 | sing | her = she | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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