Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 115
In the Saxon Chronicles we are told that Ludwig, King of the Franks, took Schloss Ballenstedt, and carried away captive the fair daughter of the Earl of Askanien.
Who acts: Ludwig · What happens: tell, take, carry away · To what, where: we, Saxon Chronicles, Schloss · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ludwig), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Chronicles | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Chronicles | det |
| 3 | Saxon | Saxon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chronicles | compound |
| 4 | Chronicles | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 told | obl |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 took | mark |
| 9 | Ludwig | Ludwig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ludwig | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Franks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Franks | det |
| 14 | Franks | frank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 King | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ludwig | punct |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | ccomp |
| 17 | Schloss | Schloss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | Ballenstedt | Ballenstedt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Schloss | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 carried | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 carried | cc |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 carried | advmod |
| 23 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 carried | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 daughter | det |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 daughter | amod |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carried | dislocated |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Earl | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Earl | det |
| 29 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Askanien | case |
| 31 | Askanien | Askanien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Earl | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | we | the Saxon Chronicles | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Ludwig | Schloss | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument schloss=Destination | ||||
| 3 | carry away | past | Ludwig not said here | the fair daughter of the Earl of Askanien dislocated; away, captive property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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