Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 32
She rose one morning before daybreak, and went out to gather wood, when she saw a fire burning on the mountain.
Who acts: discovery, fire · What happens: rise, go out, gather, see, burn · To what, where: daybreak, wood, fire, mountain
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 (discovery, fire), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 daybreak | case |
| 6 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 gather | mark |
| 12 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gather | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 fire | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 mountain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 mountain | det |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 burning | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | discovery | daybreak | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before daybreak=Location | |||
| 2 | go out | past | discovery not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gather | to-infinitive | discovery not said here | wood | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | discovery | a fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | burn | gerund | a fire not said here | the mountain | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=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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