Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 24
An inexpressible sorrow seized her, she clad herself in mourning garments, grew paler than the flower that droops before the mighty frost, and refused to be comforted.
Who acts: inexpressible sorrow, Liutburga, flower · What happens: seize, clad, grow, droop, refuse, not comfort · To what, where: Liutburga, mourning garments, mighty frost
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 (inexpressible sorrow, Liutburga, flower), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sorrow | det |
| 2 | inexpressible | inexpressible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sorrow | amod |
| 3 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clad | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 clad | nsubj |
| 8 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 clad | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garments | case |
| 11 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 garments | compound |
| 12 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 clad | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 clad | conj |
| 15 | paler | pale | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 flower | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flower | det |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paler | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 droops | nsubj |
| 20 | droops | droop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 flower | acl:relcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 frost | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 frost | det |
| 23 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 frost | amod |
| 24 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 droops | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 refused | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 refused | cc |
| 27 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 comforted | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 comforted | aux:pass |
| 30 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 refused | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | a inexpressible sorrow | Liutburga | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clad | past | Liutburga | Liutburga | mourning garments | tree rules | |||
| 3 | grow | past | Liutburga not said here | pale property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | droop | present | the flower | the mighty frost | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before frost=Location | ||||
| 5 | refuse | past | a inexpressible sorrow not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not comfort | to-infinitive · passive | a inexpressible sorrow not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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