Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 9, sentence 98
The singer looked in the direction of the voice, and stood like one transfixed at the sight of the vision before him.
Who acts: singer · What happens: look, stand, transfix, sight · To what, where: vision
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 (singer), 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 singer | det |
| 2 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 direction | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 direction | det |
| 6 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 direction | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 sight | nsubj |
| 15 | transfixed | transfix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sight | amod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sight | det |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 vision | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 vision | det |
| 21 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sight | nmod |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the singer | in the direction of the voice | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the singer not said here | before voice | like the transfixed sight of the vision | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | |||
| 3 | transfix | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | sight | the vision | nom sight «cognition 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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