Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 4, sentence 30
Let proud Science beware lest she scorch her 'golden wings' in the avenging fire of Divine wrath.
Who acts: you, proud Science, Science · What happens: let, beware, scorch, avenge, fire · To what, where: proud Science, faith, avenging fire, Divine wrath
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, proud Science, Science), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Science | amod |
| 3 | Science | Science | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 7 scorch | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scorch | nsubj |
| 7 | scorch | scorch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beware | ccomp |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scorch | obj |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wings | punct |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wings | amod |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scorch | appos |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 wings | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 15 | avenging | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fire | amod |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 scorch | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wrath | case |
| 18 | Divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wrath | amod |
| 19 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fire | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | proud Science | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beware | infinitive | proud Science not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | scorch | infinitive | Science | faith | the avenging fire of Divine wrath | golden wings appos | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||
| 4 | avenge | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | fire | Divine wrath | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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