Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 83
"How glorious! how wonderful!" he thought, as he stood still and gazed around him; "and what a mystery it is that only man is so often shut out from the universal enjoyment of creation.
Who acts: wanderer, mystery · What happens: think, stand, gaze, be, enjoy · To what, where: mystery, universal enjoyment, creation · 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 (wanderer, mystery), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 glorious | advmod |
| 3 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wonderful | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 wonderful | advmod |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonderful | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 stood | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gazed | cc |
| 17 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 18 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gazed | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 what | cc |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 wonderful | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mystery | det |
| 25 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 what | nsubj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 shut | cop |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 shut | mark |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 man | advmod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 shut | aux:pass |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 shut | advmod |
| 33 | often | often | ADV | _ | 34 shut | advmod |
| 34 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 mystery | acl:relcl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 shut | compound:prt |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 enjoyment | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 enjoyment | det |
| 38 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 enjoyment | amod |
| 39 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shut | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 creation | case |
| 41 | creation | creation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 enjoyment | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | wanderer | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | wanderer | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | wanderer not said here | around wanderer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present · passive | a mystery not said here | mystery | the universal enjoyment of creation | man nsubj:pass; often, shut property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | enjoy in a quote | creation | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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