Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 12
He looked around seeking the door and rushed out, hearing only the words, "Forget not the most beautiful treasure," and never stopped till he had reached the meadow and his sheep.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: look around, seek, rush out, hear, not forget, not stop · To what, where: door, words, beautiful treasure, meadow · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fairy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 seeking | mark |
| 4 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rushed | cc |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seeking | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 rushed | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hearing | punct |
| 11 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 words | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 words | det |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hearing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Forget | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Forget | punct |
| 17 | Forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hearing | ccomp |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 Forget | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 treasure | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 treasure | amod |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Forget | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Forget | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Forget | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stopped | cc |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 stopped | advmod |
| 27 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 28 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 reached | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 reached | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 reached | aux |
| 31 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 stopped | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 meadow | det |
| 33 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 reached | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sheep | cc |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 meadow | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | fairy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | fairy not said here | the door | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush out | participle | fairy not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hear | gerund | fairy not said here | the words | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not forget in a quote | infinitive | the beautiful treasure | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not stop | past | fairy not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | reach | past · perfect | fairy | the meadow and fairy's sheep | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meadow=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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