Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 2
Low willows adorn the banks, and bathe their locks in the waves, out of which a thick wood of slender reeds springs forth.
Who acts: Low willows, thick wood · What happens: adorn, bathe, reed · To what, where: banks, locks
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 (Low willows, thick wood), 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 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 willows | amod |
| 2 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adorn | nsubj |
| 3 | adorn | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 banks | det |
| 5 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 adorn | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bathe | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bathe | cc |
| 8 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 adorn | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 locks | nmod:poss |
| 10 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bathe | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 waves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waves | det |
| 13 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bathe | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reeds | punct |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 reeds | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wood | amod |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reeds | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 slender | case |
| 22 | slender | slender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wood | nmod |
| 23 | reeds | reed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bathe | parataxis |
| 24 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reeds | obj |
| 25 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 reeds | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adorn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | present | Low willows | the banks | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bank=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bathe | infinitive | Low willows not said here | willows's locks | in the waves | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent lock=Destination in wave=Theme | |||
| 3 | reed | present | a thick wood of slender | spring | which obl; forth property | tree rules |
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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