Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 54
There, above the tower, rose amid the slender grass, in wonderful beauty, white as a lily and as graceful, the Flower of the Lauenburg, which had just been the subject of their conversation and their dreams.
Who acts: wonderful beauty, beauty, conversation · What happens: rise, be, converse, dream · To what, where: tower, subject
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 (wonderful beauty, beauty, conversation), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 rose | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 3 | above | above | ADP | _ | 5 tower | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tower | det |
| 5 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tower | punct |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | amid | amid | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grass | det |
| 10 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grass | amod |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beauty | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 beauty | case |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beauty | amod |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 white | punct |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beauty | amod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 lily | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lily | det |
| 20 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 white | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 graceful | cc |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 graceful | case |
| 23 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 white | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Flower | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Flower | det |
| 26 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 beauty | conj |
| 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 Flower | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 subject | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 subject | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 subject | aux |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 subject | advmod |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 subject | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 subject | det |
| 36 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beauty | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 conversation | case |
| 38 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 39 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 subject | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 dreams | cc |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 42 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 conversation | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the tower; there | amid the slender grass; in wonderful beauty and the Flower of the Lauenburg and the subject | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above tower=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | wonderful beauty and the Flower of the Lauenburg and the subject | the subject | of beauty's conversation and conversation's dreams | tree rules | |||
| 3 | converse | beauty | nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | dream | conversation | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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