Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 42
The eldest, Elizabeth, was chosen at the age of thirteen, by Kaiser Leopold, as consort of his son Carl III., king of Spain, later Carl VI. of Germany.
What happens: choose · To what, where: eldest Elizabeth, age
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Elizabeth | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Elizabeth | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Elizabeth | punct |
| 4 | Elizabeth | Elizabeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Elizabeth | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux:pass |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 age | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 age | det |
| 10 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 thirteen | case |
| 12 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 age | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kaiser | punct |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Kaiser | case |
| 15 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | parataxis |
| 16 | Leopold | Leopold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kaiser | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 consort | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 consort | case |
| 19 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 son | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 consort | nmod |
| 23 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 consort | appos |
| 24 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 23 Carl | flat |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Carl | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 king | punct |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Carl | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Spain | case |
| 29 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 king | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 VI | punct |
| 31 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 33 VI | advmod |
| 32 | Carl | Carl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 VI | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 23 Carl | list |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Carl | punct |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Germany | case |
| 36 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Carl | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | the eldest Elizabeth | at the age of thirteen | Kaiser parataxis; consort of Elizabeth's son parataxis | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at age=Asset |
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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