Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 30
The Ritter summons all his retainers with the horn, and they storm through the forest whole nights and days, but of the lost child no trace.
Who acts: Ritter, retainers · What happens: summon, storm, lose · To what, where: retainers
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 (Ritter, retainers), 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 Ritter | det |
| 2 | Ritter | ritter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summons | nsubj |
| 3 | summons | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 retainers | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 retainers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | retainers | retainer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 summons | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 horn | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horn | det |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retainers | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 storm | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 storm | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 storm | nsubj |
| 13 | storm | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 summons | conj |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 nights | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nights | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 nights | compound |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 nights | amod |
| 18 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 storm | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 days | cc |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 nights | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 trace | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 trace | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 child | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 child | det |
| 25 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 child | amod |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trace | compound |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 trace | det |
| 28 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summons | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | present | the Ritter | Ritter's retainers | with the horn; no child trace parataxis | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent retainer=Recipient | |||
| 2 | storm | present | retainers = retainer | night | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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