Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 32
Again, on a St. John's Day, the children of Steckelnberg played among the ruins of the Lauenburg, when they saw again the wonderful flower, and heard the same soft voice, "Do not pluck me."
Who acts: children · What happens: play, see, hear, not pluck, ruin · To what, where: wonderful flower, same soft voice, children, Lauenburg · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (children), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 14 played | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Again | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Day | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 John | det |
| 5 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 John | nmod:desc |
| 6 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Day | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 John | case |
| 8 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 played | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Day | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 played | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Steckelnberg | case |
| 13 | Steckelnberg | Steckelnberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 children | nmod |
| 14 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 ruins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ruins | det |
| 17 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 played | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Lauenburg | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Lauenburg | det |
| 20 | Lauenburg | Lauenburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ruins | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 saw | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 played | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 saw | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 flower | det |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 flower | amod |
| 28 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 saw | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 heard | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 heard | cc |
| 31 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 played | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 voice | det |
| 33 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 voice | amod |
| 34 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 voice | amod |
| 35 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heard | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pluck | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 pluck | punct |
| 38 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 40 pluck | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 pluck | advmod |
| 40 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 heard | ccomp |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 pluck | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 pluck | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 pluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the children of Steckelnberg | on a John St.'s Day; again | among the ruins of the Lauenburg | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | children = child | the wonderful flower | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hear | past | the children of Steckelnberg not said here | the same soft voice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not pluck in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the children = child | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 5 | ruin | the Lauenburg | nom ruin «state 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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