Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 42
This she related to her lover one day as they wandered through the wood around the ruins.
Who acts: This, maidens · What happens: relate, wander · To what, where: wood
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 (This, maidens), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 related | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 related | nsubj |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lover | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lover | nmod:poss |
| 6 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 wandered | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wandered | nsubj |
| 11 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wandered | obl |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 ruins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ruins | det |
| 17 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wandered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | This | day | to girl's lover; girl nsubj | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to lover=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | wander | past | maidens = maiden | the wood | around the ruins | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=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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