Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 38
The birds of the wood had sung her death-song, and the trees had showered their leaves and blossoms over the still form.
Who acts: Liutburga · What happens: sing, shower · To what, where: birds, trees, form
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), 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 | 2 birds | det |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 birds | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sung | aux |
| 7 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 song | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 song | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 death | punct |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sung | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 showered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 showered | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 showered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 showered | aux |
| 17 | showered | shower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sung | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 showered | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blossoms | cc |
| 21 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 leaves | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 form | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 form | det |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 form | advmod |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 showered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past · perfect · passive | the birds of the wood | Liutburga's death song obj | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary song=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shower | past · perfect · passive | the trees | the form | trees's leaves and blossoms obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sing | Liutburga | nom song «communication 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/8/38/