Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 43
And now there were feasting and joy, and the Earl von Regenstein commanded the best wine to be brought.
Who acts: Earl Regenstein · What happens: be, bring
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 (Earl Regenstein), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 were | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 were | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 were | expl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 commanded | cop |
| 5 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 were | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 joy | cc |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feasting | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 commanded | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commanded | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Regenstein | det |
| 11 | Earl | Earl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Regenstein | compound |
| 12 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 11 Earl | flat |
| 13 | Regenstein | Regenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 commanded | nsubj |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wine | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 wine | amod |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 commanded | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 brought | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 brought | aux:pass |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wine | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Earl Regenstein | the best wine obj; command property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive · passive | the Earl Regenstein not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» |
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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