Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 52
The Huns, surprised at opposition, and the sight of the huge weapons of the mountaineers, hesitated to begin the attack.
Who acts: Huns · What happens: surprise, hesitate, begin, sight · To what, where: opposition, sight, attack, huge weapons
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 (Huns), 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 Huns | det |
| 2 | Huns | Hun | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
| 4 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 opposition | case |
| 6 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 surprised | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hesitated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hesitated | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hesitated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 weapons | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 weapons | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 weapons | amod |
| 14 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sight | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mountaineers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountaineers | det |
| 17 | mountaineers | mountaineer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 weapons | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hesitated | punct |
| 19 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 surprised | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 begin | mark |
| 21 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hesitated | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attack | det |
| 23 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 begin | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | participle | the Huns | opposition | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hesitate | participle · passive | the sight of the huge weapons of the mountaineers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | begin | to-infinitive | the attack | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | sight | the huge weapons of the mountaineers | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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