Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 3, sentence 82
A maiden form rises from the dark vault, and wanders to the tower, and to the great gates, and an innocent countenance smiles upon thee.
Who acts: maiden form, innocent countenance · What happens: rise, wander, smile · To what, where: dark vault, tower
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 (maiden form, innocent countenance), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 form | amod |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rises | nsubj |
| 4 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 vault | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vault | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vault | amod |
| 8 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rises | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanders | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wanders | cc |
| 11 | wanders | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rises | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanders | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gates | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gates | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 gates | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gates | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gates | amod |
| 20 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wanders | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 smiles | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 smiles | cc |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 countenance | det |
| 24 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 countenance | amod |
| 25 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 smiles | nsubj |
| 26 | smiles | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rises | parataxis |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 thee | case |
| 28 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 smiles | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | a maiden form | the dark vault | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from vault=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | wander | present | the tower | the great gates conj | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tower=Destination | ||||
| 3 | smile | present | a innocent countenance | upon thee | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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.
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