Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 137
The good old man, when she came yesterday telling him all her sorrow, received her lovingly, and gave her a secure refuge in his peaceful retreat. "
Who acts: good old man, Reinhilde · What happens: come, tell, receive, give, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, Kaiser, lovingly, secure refuge, Reinhilde, peaceful retreat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good old man, Reinhilde), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 came | advmod |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 telling | iobj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 sorrow | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 telling | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 received | punct |
| 16 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lovingly | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lovingly | lovingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 received | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 refuge | det |
| 24 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 refuge | amod |
| 25 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 retreat | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 28 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 retreat | amod |
| 29 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 refuge | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the good old man | yesterday | Reinhilde nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the good old man not said here | Reinhilde's sorrow | Kaiser | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sorrow=Topic | |||
| 3 | receive | past | Reinhilde's lovingly | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lovingly=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the good old man not said here | a secure refuge | Reinhilde | Kaiser's peaceful retreat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient refuge=Theme | ||
| 5 | sorrow | Reinhilde | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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