Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 8, sentence 87
The Lady von Falkenstein was once summoned by the _Berggeist_[1] to attend the Queen of the Gnomes in her extremity.
Who acts: Berggeist · What happens: summon, attend · To what, where: Lady von Falkenstein, Queen, extremity
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 (Berggeist), 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 | 4 Falkenstein | det |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Falkenstein | compound |
| 3 | von | von | PROPN | _ | 4 Falkenstein | compound |
| 4 | Falkenstein | Falkenstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 summoned | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 summoned | aux:pass |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 summoned | advmod |
| 7 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Berggeist | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Berggeist | det |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Berggeist | punct |
| 11 | Berggeist | Berggeist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 summoned | obl:agent |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Berggeist | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 1 | punct |
| 14 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Berggeist | flat |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 1 | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 attend | mark |
| 17 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 summoned | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 attend | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Gnomes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Gnomes | det |
| 22 | Gnomes | Gnome | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Queen | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 extremity | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 extremity | nmod:poss |
| 25 | extremity | extremity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attend | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | the Berggeist | the Lady von Falkenstein | once property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | the Berggeist not said here | the Queen of the Gnomes | Falkenstein's extremity | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme queen=Goal |
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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