Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 23
She recognizes the voice that cries for aid, and her eagle eye perceives her friend being dragged away by two mountain robbers.
Who acts: maiden, voice, eagle eye, two mountain robbers · What happens: recognize, cry, perceive, drag away · To what, where: voice, friend
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 (maiden, voice, eagle eye, two mountain robbers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recognizes | nsubj |
| 2 | recognizes | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recognizes | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cries | nsubj |
| 6 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 voice | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 aid | case |
| 8 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cries | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perceives | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 perceives | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eye | compound |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perceives | nsubj |
| 14 | perceives | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 recognizes | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dragged | nsubj |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 dragged | aux:pass |
| 18 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 perceives | ccomp |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 dragged | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 robbers | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 robbers | nummod |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 robbers | compound |
| 23 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dragged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 recognizes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognize | present | maiden | the voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | the voice | for aid | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for aid=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | perceive | present | maiden's eagle eye | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | drag away | gerund · passive | two mountain robbers | maiden's friend | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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