Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 10, sentence 63
But see! see! the enemy grows weak; now he totters, our king wields more quickly more mightily his arm!
Who acts: you, enemy, king · What happens: see, grow, totter, wield · To what, where: totters
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 (you, enemy, king), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 see | cc |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 see | xcomp |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 grows | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 enemy | det |
| 7 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | advcl |
| 9 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grows | xcomp |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 totters | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 totters | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 totters | nsubj |
| 13 | totters | totter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wields | punct |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 king | nmod:poss |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wields | nsubj |
| 17 | wields | wield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 totters | acl:relcl |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 quickly | advmod |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 21 mightily | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 mightily | advmod |
| 21 | mightily | mightily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wields | ccomp |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arm | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mightily | nsubj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | the enemy | weak property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | totter | enemy | now | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | wield | present | our king | totters not said here | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent totter=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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