Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 20
And there stood before him no longer a serpent, but a beautiful girl, and more--a princess.
What happens: stand · To what, where: beautiful girl
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 stood | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 serpent | det |
| 9 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 longer | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 girl | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 girl | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 princess | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 princess | cc |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 princess | amod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a beautiful girl | there | before shepherd | a more princess obl; long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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