Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 101

She glanced toward heaven, but both moon and stars were hidden behind the dark clouds; the flowers hung sadly their drooping heads, as if in sympathy with the maiden doomed to a convent life.

Who acts: Lina, flowers · What happens: glance, hide, hang, droop, doom · To what, where: moon, dark clouds, drooping heads, sympathy

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lina, flowers), 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	2 glanced	nsubj
2	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	4 heaven	case
4	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glanced	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hidden	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hidden	cc
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 moon	det
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hidden	nsubj:pass
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stars	cc
10	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 moon	conj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hidden	aux:pass
12	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 glanced	conj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	16 clouds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clouds	det
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clouds	amod
16	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hidden	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hung	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	nsubj
20	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 glanced	parataxis
21	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	20 hung	advmod
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heads	nmod:poss
23	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 heads	amod
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 doomed	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 doomed	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 doomed	mark
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 sympathy	case
29	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 doomed	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 maiden	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 maiden	det
32	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sympathy	nmod
33	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hung	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 life	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 life	det
36	convent	convent	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 life	compound
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 doomed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glance	past	Lina			toward heaven	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward heaven=Theme
2	hide	past · passive		both moon and stars	the dark clouds		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient behind cloud=Location
3	hang	past	the flowers	flowers's drooping heads		sadly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	droop	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	doom a condition, not said to happen	participle	the flowers not said here		sympathy with the maiden	to a convent life	tree rules

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, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 101

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 101