Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 15
The Empress Matilda, the wife of Henry the Fowler, endowed it with lands, and Kaiser Otto loaded it with favours, so that an enlargement became necessary, and hence an hour's distance down the valley the larger and more magnificent Kloster was built.
Who acts: Empress Matilda, Kaiser, enlargement · What happens: endow, load, become, build · To what, where: Fowler, magnificent Kloster
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 (Empress Matilda, Kaiser, enlargement), 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 | 3 Matilda | det |
| 2 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Matilda | compound |
| 3 | Matilda | Matilda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 endowed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Matilda | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Henry | case |
| 8 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fowler | det |
| 10 | Fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Henry | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Matilda | punct |
| 12 | endowed | endow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 endowed | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 lands | case |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 endowed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 loaded | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 loaded | cc |
| 18 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 loaded | nsubj |
| 19 | Otto | Otto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Kaiser | flat |
| 20 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 endowed | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 loaded | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 favours | case |
| 23 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 loaded | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 became | punct |
| 25 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 29 became | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 so | fixed |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 enlargement | det |
| 28 | enlargement | enlargement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 became | nsubj |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 loaded | conj |
| 30 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 became | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 distance | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 distance | cc |
| 33 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 37 distance | advmod |
| 34 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hour | det |
| 35 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 distance | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 hour | case |
| 37 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 endowed | obl |
| 38 | down | down | ADP | _ | 40 valley | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 valley | det |
| 40 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 distance | nmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 larger | det |
| 42 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 valley | amod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 built | cc |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 magnificent | advmod |
| 45 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Kloster | amod |
| 46 | Kloster | Kloster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 built | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 built | aux:pass |
| 48 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 larger | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 endowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endow | past | the Empress Matilda | Fowler | with lands; a hour's distance down the valley obl | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with land=Theme | |||
| 2 | load | past | Kaiser | Fowler | with favours | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with favour=Theme | |||
| 3 | become | past | a enlargement | necessary property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | build | past · passive | magnificent Kloster | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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