Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 143
And Volkmar replies, "I have only seen a bride of heaven, who is resting in the cave."
Who acts: Volkmar, bride · What happens: reply, see, rest · To what, where: bride, cave · 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 (Volkmar, bride), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 replies | cc |
| 2 | Volkmar | Volkmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replies | nsubj |
| 3 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 replies | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bride | det |
| 11 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seen | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bride | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resting | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 resting | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 resting | aux |
| 17 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 bride | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cave | det |
| 20 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replies | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | Volkmar | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Volkmar | a bride of heaven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | rest in a quote | present · progressive | a bride of heaven | the cave | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in cave=Location |
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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