Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 2, sentence 89
He recovered, and the young Countess, in the first bloom of her youth, entered the convent north of and near Blankenburg, where now two large lindens stand close by the bleaching-place.
Who acts: portrait, young Countess, two large lindens, youth · What happens: recover, enter, stand, bloom · To what, where: convent, Blankenburg
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 (portrait, young Countess, two large lindens, youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recovered | nsubj |
| 2 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 entered | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 entered | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Countess | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Countess | amod |
| 7 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bloom | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bloom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bloom | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 bloom | amod |
| 12 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Countess | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 youth | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 youth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bloom | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Countess | punct |
| 17 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 recovered | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 convent | det |
| 19 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 entered | obj |
| 20 | north | north | ADV | _ | 17 entered | advmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 north | fixed |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stand | cc |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 Blankenburg | case |
| 24 | Blankenburg | Blankenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 stand | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stand | punct |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 stand | advmod |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 stand | advmod |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 lindens | nummod |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lindens | amod |
| 30 | lindens | linden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 stand | nsubj |
| 31 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 north | conj |
| 32 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 stand | advmod |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 place | det |
| 35 | bleaching | bleaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 place | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 bleaching | punct |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 close | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | portrait | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | the young Countess | the convent | north property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme convent=Destination | |||
| 3 | stand | present | two large lindens | Blankenburg | now | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near blankenburg=Location | ||
| 4 | bloom | Countess's youth | nom bloom «process intransitive»: of=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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