Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 3
The monk approached her too boldly, begging for the jewels of the depths, and she gave him such a blow with her keys that he fled in terror, and never dared to visit the place again.
Who acts: monk, formula · What happens: approach, beg, give, flee, not dare, not visit · To what, where: formula, blow, monk, terror, 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 (monk, formula), 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 monk | det |
| 2 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | obj |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 boldly | advmod |
| 6 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 approached | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begging | punct |
| 8 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 approached | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 jewels | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jewels | det |
| 11 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 begging | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 depths | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 depths | det |
| 14 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 jewels | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 blow | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 blow | det |
| 22 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 keys | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 keys | nmod:poss |
| 25 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 fled | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 fled | nsubj |
| 28 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gave | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 terror | case |
| 30 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dared | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dared | cc |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 dared | advmod |
| 34 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 fled | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 visit | mark |
| 36 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 dared | xcomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 place | det |
| 38 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 visit | obj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 36 visit | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the monk | formula | boldly property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | gerund | the monk not said here | for the jewels of the depths | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for jewel=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | formula | such blow | monk | with formula's keys | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme | ||
| 4 | flee | past | monk | terror | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not dare | past | monk not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not visit | to-infinitive | monk not said here | the place | again | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Co-Agent |
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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