Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 22
She stood on the battlements of her castle, and saw him ride away, and when she could see him no longer her sighs and tears burst forth.
Who acts: Liutburga, knight, sighs · What happens: stand, see, ride away, burst, sigh · To what, where: battlements, knight
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 (Liutburga, knight, sighs), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 battlements | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 battlements | det |
| 5 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 castle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 battlements | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saw | xcomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 ride | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 see | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | no | no | ADV | _ | 23 longer | advmod |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 see | advmod |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sighs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 burst | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tears | cc |
| 27 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sighs | conj |
| 28 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | parataxis |
| 29 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 burst | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Liutburga | the battlements of Liutburga's castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on battlement=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Liutburga not said here | knight | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ride away | infinitive | knight not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | could | Liutburga | knight | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | burst | present | Liutburga's sighs and tears | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sigh | Liutburga | nom sigh «communication 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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