Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 30
He fled on the wings of love to the castle of Liutburga, and hearing of her retirement he penetrated the mountains to seek out the spot.
Who acts: Volkmar, hearing, retirement, Liutburga · What happens: flee, penetrate, seek out, hear, retire · To what, where: wings, mountains, spot
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, hearing, retirement, Liutburga), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 wings | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wings | det |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fled | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 love | case |
| 7 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wings | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Liutburga | case |
| 12 | Liutburga | Liutburga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 castle | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 penetrated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 penetrated | cc |
| 15 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 penetrated | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 retirement | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 retirement | nmod:poss |
| 18 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hearing | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 penetrated | nsubj |
| 20 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fled | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mountains | det |
| 22 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 penetrated | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 seek | mark |
| 24 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 penetrated | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 seek | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spot | det |
| 27 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seek | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | Volkmar | the wings of love | to the castle of Liutburga | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | penetrate | past | hearing of Liutburga's retirement | the mountains | Volkmar nsubj | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | |||
| 3 | seek out | to-infinitive | hearing of Liutburga's retirement not said here | the spot | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | Liutburga's retirement | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | retire | Liutburga | nom retirement «state intransitive»: 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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