Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 100
Before he could recover from his astonishment, the figure rose and approached him, saying in a voice of the most delicious melody--
Who acts: bank, figure · What happens: recover, rise, approach, say, astonish · To what, where: astonishment, bank, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bank, figure), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 recover | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 recover | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 recover | aux |
| 4 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 astonishment | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 7 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recover | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 figure | det |
| 10 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rose | nsubj |
| 11 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recover | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 approached | cc |
| 13 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rose | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 approached | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 approached | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voice | det |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saying | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 melody | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 melody | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 delicious | advmod |
| 23 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 melody | amod |
| 24 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voice | nmod |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 recover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | could | bank | bank's astonishment | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from astonishment=Source | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | the figure | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | approach | past | the figure not said here | bank | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | the figure not said here | a voice of the delicious melody | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | ||||
| 5 | astonish | bank | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: 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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