Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 30
The impatient animal pawed and stamped, and his rider returning, found a glittering piece of silver ore laid bare.
Who acts: rider, impatient animal · What happens: paw, stamp, return, find, glitter, lay · To what, where: impatient animal, glittering piece
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 (rider, impatient animal), 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 | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj |
| 4 | pawed | paw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 animal | acl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stamped | cc |
| 6 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pawed | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rider | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rider | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 rider | nmod:poss |
| 10 | rider | rider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animal | appos |
| 11 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 rider | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 animal | punct |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 piece | det |
| 15 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 piece | amod |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ore | case |
| 18 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ore | compound |
| 19 | ore | ore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piece | nmod |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 piece | acl |
| 21 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 laid | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paw | participle | the impatient animal not said here | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stamp | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | return | gerund | animal's rider not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | the impatient animal | a glittering piece of silver ore | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | ||||
| 5 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | lay | participle | a glittering piece of silver ore not said here | bare property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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