Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 10
Hesitating and with fear she followed the powerful sovereign; gnomes and cobolds attended everywhere with homage.
Who acts: gnomes, Queen · What happens: hesitate, follow, attend · To what, where: powerful sovereign
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnomes, Queen), 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 | Hesitating | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 attended | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 followed | cc |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 fear | case |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 followed | nsubj |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hesitating | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sovereign | det |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sovereign | amod |
| 9 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hesitating | punct |
| 11 | gnomes | gnome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 attended | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cobolds | cc |
| 13 | cobolds | cobold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gnomes | conj |
| 14 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 attended | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 homage | case |
| 17 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attended | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 attended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hesitate | gerund | gnomes and cobolds not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | Queen | the powerful sovereign | with fear | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme | |||
| 3 | attend | past | gnomes and cobolds | with homage; everywhere property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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