Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 66
Then he rises, commands his companion to remain standing in the middle of the chapel, and approaches the door opposite the one by which they had entered.
Who acts: monk, walls · What happens: rise, command, remain, stand, approach, enter · To what, where: companion, middle, door · 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 (monk, walls), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rises | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rises | nsubj |
| 3 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 commands | punct |
| 5 | commands | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rises | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commands | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 remain | mark |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 commands | ccomp |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 remain | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 chapel | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chapel | det |
| 16 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 approaches | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 approaches | cc |
| 19 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rises | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 door | det |
| 21 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 approaches | obj |
| 22 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 approaches | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 entered | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 entered | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 entered | aux |
| 29 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 one | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | monk | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | command | present | monk not said here | monk's companion | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | remain not said to happen | to-infinitive | monk not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | monk not said here | the middle of the chapel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 5 | approach | present | monk not said here | the door | opposite the one | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | |||
| 6 | enter | past · perfect | walls = wall | by the one | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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