Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 8, sentence 9
She is seen on the Staufenburg bei Zorge every seven years at Easter, with a bunch of keys and a Pomeranian dog white as snow.
What happens: see · To what, where: serpent, Staufenburg bei
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux:pass |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bei | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bei | det |
| 6 | Staufenburg | Staufenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bei | compound |
| 7 | bei | bei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 8 | Zorge | Zorge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bei | flat |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 years | det |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Easter | case |
| 13 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 years | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bunch | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 bunch | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bunch | det |
| 17 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 keys | case |
| 19 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bunch | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dog | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 22 | Pomeranian | pomeranian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dog | amod |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 keys | appos |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dog | amod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 snow | case |
| 26 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 white | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | serpent | the Staufenburg bei | year | with a bunch of keys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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