Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 27
They had often heard their parents and grandparents relate how once, in the greyest times, a maiden had been carried off by the Ritter of the Lauenburg, and in the hour of her greatest danger had been rescued from his power by transformation into a flower, which bloomed every year a single day, and the maiden came and wandered a single night through the ruins.
Who acts: parents, Ritter, transformation, flower, maiden · What happens: hear, relate, carry off, rescue, bloom, come · To what, where: children, maiden, power, ruins
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Ritter, transformation, flower), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | aux |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 relate | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grandparents | cc |
| 8 | grandparents | grandparent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 parents | conj |
| 9 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 once | advmod |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 relate | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 times | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 times | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 times | det |
| 15 | greyest | grey | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 times | amod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carried | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 maiden | det |
| 19 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 carried | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 carried | aux:pass |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 carried | compound:prt |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Ritter | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ritter | det |
| 26 | Ritter | ritter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Lauenburg | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Lauenburg | det |
| 29 | Lauenburg | Lauenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Ritter | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rescued | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rescued | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hour | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hour | det |
| 34 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rescued | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 danger | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 danger | nmod:poss |
| 37 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 danger | amod |
| 38 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hour | nmod |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 rescued | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 rescued | aux:pass |
| 41 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heard | conj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 power | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 power | nmod:poss |
| 44 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rescued | obl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 transformation | case |
| 46 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rescued | obl |
| 47 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 flower | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 flower | det |
| 49 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rescued | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 bloomed | punct |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 bloomed | nsubj |
| 52 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 flower | acl:relcl |
| 53 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 year | det |
| 54 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 bloomed | obj |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 day | det |
| 56 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 day | amod |
| 57 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 bloomed | obl:unmarked |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 came | punct |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 62 came | cc |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 maiden | det |
| 61 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 came | nsubj |
| 62 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 63 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 64 wandered | cc |
| 64 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 came | conj |
| 65 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 67 night | det |
| 66 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 67 night | amod |
| 67 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 68 | through | through | ADP | _ | 70 ruins | case |
| 69 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 70 ruins | det |
| 70 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 wandered | obl |
| 71 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect · passive | children = child | time | often property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | relate | present | children's parents and grandparents | once property | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past · perfect · passive | the Ritter of the Lauenburg | a maiden | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | transformation | John's power | hour | into a flower | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from power=Source | ||
| 5 | bloom | past | a flower | day; year | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | the maiden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | wander | past | the maiden not said here | the ruins | night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ruin=Trajectory |
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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