Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 106
A blissful moment the lovers embraced each other; then came a feeling of duty, of assumed vows before the soul of the bride of heaven like a fiend of darkness.
Who acts: blissful moment · What happens: embrace, come, assume · To what, where: each, feeling
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 (blissful moment), 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 | 3 moment | det |
| 2 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moment | amod |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embraced | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lovers | det |
| 5 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 embraced | nsubj |
| 6 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 6 embraced | obj |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 embraced | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feeling | det |
| 13 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 duty | case |
| 15 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feeling | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vows | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 vows | case |
| 18 | assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 vows | amod |
| 19 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 soul | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 soul | det |
| 22 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vows | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bride | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bride | det |
| 25 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 soul | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 heaven | case |
| 27 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bride | nmod |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 fiend | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fiend | det |
| 30 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heaven | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 darkness | case |
| 32 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fiend | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | a blissful moment | each | the lovers nsubj | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | a blissful moment not said here | a feeling of duty | then | of assumed vows before the soul of the bride of heaven like a fiend of darkness | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feeling=Theme | ||
| 3 | assume | participle | vn adopt-93.1 «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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