Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 83

A thousand tiny female forms appeared in answer to the summons, bearing strawberries and raspberries; and while the King and his guest partook of the fruit, the dwarf maidens played the most delicious music.

Who acts: tiny female forms, King, dwarf maidens · What happens: appear, bear, partake, play · To what, where: thousand, answer, strawberries, delicious music

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 (tiny female forms, King, dwarf maidens), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thousand	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 appeared	obl
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forms	amod
4	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 forms	amod
5	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 answer	case
8	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 summons	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 summons	det
11	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 answer	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bearing	punct
13	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 appeared	advcl
14	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bearing	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 raspberries	cc
16	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 strawberries	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 partook	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 partook	cc
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 partook	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 partook	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 guest	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 guest	nmod:poss
24	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 King	conj
25	partook	partake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 fruit	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fruit	det
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 partook	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 played	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 maidens	det
31	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 maidens	amod
32	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 played	nsubj
33	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 partook	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 music	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 delicious	advmod
36	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 music	amod
37	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 played	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	tiny female forms	a thousand	answer to the summons		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in answer=Location
2	bear	gerund	tiny female forms not said here	strawberries and raspberries			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient
3	partake	past	the King and king's guest			of the fruit	tree rules
4	play	past	the dwarf maidens	the delicious music			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=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 8, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 83