Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 33
She hurried to the spot, and found several men with white beards sitting around it.
Who acts: discovery, white beards · What happens: hurry, find, sit · To what, where: spot, several men
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, white beards), 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 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 spot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spot | det |
| 5 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hurried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | conj |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 beards | case |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beards | amod |
| 13 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 men | nmod |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 beards | acl |
| 15 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sitting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | discovery | the spot | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | discovery not said here | several men | with white beards | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | white beards not said here | spot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=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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