Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 7, sentence 69
How radiant was the royal maiden, her green veil floating on the breeze, her clear eyes gazing fearlessly around her, her sweet face smiling like a bright morning in spring.
Who acts: green veil, clear eyes, sweet face · What happens: be, float, gaze, smile · To what, where: radiant royal maiden, breeze
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 (green veil, clear eyes, sweet face), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 radiant | advmod |
| 2 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 maiden | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 maiden | amod |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 veil | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 veil | nmod:poss |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 veil | amod |
| 10 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | appos |
| 11 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 veil | acl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 breeze | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 breeze | det |
| 14 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 floating | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 eyes | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 breeze | appos |
| 19 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 eyes | acl |
| 20 | fearlessly | fearlessly | ADV | _ | 19 gazing | advmod |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gazing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 face | punct |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 face | amod |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | conj |
| 27 | smiling | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 face | acl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 morning | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 morning | det |
| 30 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 morning | amod |
| 31 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 smiling | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 spring | case |
| 33 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 morning | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the radiant royal maiden and Reinhilde's sweet face | Reinhilde's green veil appos; Reinhilde's sweet face conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | Reinhilde's green veil not said here | the breeze | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breeze=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | Reinhilde's clear eyes not said here | around Reinhilde; fearlessly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | smile | gerund | Reinhilde's sweet face not said here | morning | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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