Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 38
They were the parents of three princesses, noted as well for goodness of heart as for grace and beauty.
Who acts: suites · What happens: be, note · To what, where: parents
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 (suites), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 parents | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 parents | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 parents | det |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 princesses | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 princesses | nummod |
| 7 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 parents | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 noted | punct |
| 9 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 parents | acl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 9 noted | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 as | fixed |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 goodness | case |
| 13 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goodness | nmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 grace | case |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 grace | case |
| 18 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noted | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beauty | cc |
| 20 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grace | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 parents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | suites = suite | the parents | of three princesses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | note | participle | the parents not said here | for goodness of heart; as grace and beauty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/3/38/