Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 21
Almost unhurt in appearance, they found them under the lindens, heavenly joy painted on their faces, and there they made their grave.
Who acts: arms · What happens: find, paint, make · To what, where: lovers, lindens, heavenly joy, faces, grave
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 unhurt | advmod |
| 2 | unhurt | unhurt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 appearance | case |
| 4 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 unhurt | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 unhurt | parataxis |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 lindens | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lindens | det |
| 11 | lindens | linden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 joy | punct |
| 13 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 joy | amod |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lindens | appos |
| 15 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 joy | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 faces | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 faces | nmod:poss |
| 18 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 painted | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 made | expl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grave | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 unhurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | arms = arm | lovers = lover | the lindens | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 2 | paint | participle | heavenly joy not said here | arms's faces | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on face=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | past | arms = arm | arms's grave | there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grave=Product |
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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