Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 117
Terrified, the teamster gazed at the radiant Virgin, who with an enchanting, heavenly smile approached the sunken waggon, and with a single touch drew waggon and horses out of the deep place.
Who acts: Terrified teamster, radiant Virgin · What happens: gaze, enchant, approach, draw · To what, where: sunken waggon, waggon, deep place
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Terrified teamster, radiant Virgin), 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 | Terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teamster | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrified | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 teamster | det |
| 4 | teamster | teamster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gazed | nsubj |
| 5 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Virgin | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Virgin | det |
| 8 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Virgin | amod |
| 9 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gazed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 approached | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 approached | nsubj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 smile | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 smile | det |
| 14 | enchanting | enchant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 smile | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 enchanting | punct |
| 16 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 smile | amod |
| 17 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 approached | obl |
| 18 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Virgin | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 waggon | det |
| 20 | sunken | sunken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 waggon | amod |
| 21 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 approached | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 drew | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 touch | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 touch | det |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 touch | amod |
| 27 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drew | obl |
| 28 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gazed | conj |
| 29 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drew | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 horses | cc |
| 31 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 waggon | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 place | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 place | det |
| 35 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 place | amod |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drew | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | the Terrified teamster | at the radiant Virgin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at virgin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enchant | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | approach | past | the radiant Virgin | the sunken waggon | with a enchanting heavenly smile | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent waggon=Theme with smile=Instrument | |||
| 4 | draw | past | the Terrified teamster not said here | waggon and horses | the deep place | with a single touch | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent waggon=Theme out place=Initial_Location |
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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