Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 1

The Kaiser rides forth with his train, and a knight comes on foot and alone, kneels before the shrine and prays, and at the sound of his voice Reinhilde's eye grows bright.

Who acts: Kaiser, knight, eye · What happens: ride, come, pray, grow · To what, where: foot, sound

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaiser, knight, eye), 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 Kaiser	det
2	Kaiser	Kaiser	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rides	nsubj
3	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 rides	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 train	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 train	nmod:poss
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rides	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 comes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 comes	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 knight	det
11	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	nsubj
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rides	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 foot	case
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 alone	cc
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 foot	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kneels	punct
18	kneels	kneel	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 foot	conj
19	before	before	ADP	_	21 shrine	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shrine	det
21	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 prays	cc
23	prays	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 comes	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grows	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 grows	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 sound	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sound	det
28	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grows	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 voice	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 voice	nmod:poss
31	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sound	nmod
32	Reinhilde	Reinhilde	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 eye	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 Reinhilde	case
34	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 grows	nsubj
35	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rides	conj
36	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 grows	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	the Kaiser			with Kaiser's train; forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	a knight	foot and kneels	before the shrine		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Location
3	pray	present	a knight not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	grow	present	Reinhilde's eye	the sound of Kaiser's voice		bright property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sound=Location

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 1