Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 35
They gave no answer, but sat motionless and gazed upon the ground.
Who acts: men · What happens: give, sit, gaze · To what, where: answer
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 answer | det |
| 4 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sat | cc |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 8 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sat | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gazed | cc |
| 10 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | men = man | no answer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past | upon the ground | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon ground=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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