Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 11, sentence 20
Ralf listened at first in silent astonishment, and hung enraptured on the tales from her beautiful lips, then he began to dream and fancy, and at last fell asleep.
Who acts: Ralf · What happens: listen, hang, enrapture, begin, dream, fancy · To what, where: silent astonishment, tales, last
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 (Ralf), 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 | Ralf | Ralf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 first | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 listened | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 astonishment | case |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 astonishment | amod |
| 7 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hung | cc |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | parataxis |
| 11 | enraptured | enrapture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hung | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 tales | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tales | det |
| 14 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 enraptured | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 lips | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lips | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 lips | amod |
| 18 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tales | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 began | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hung | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 dream | mark |
| 24 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fancy | cc |
| 26 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 dream | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 fell | cc |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 last | case |
| 30 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fell | obl |
| 31 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hung | conj |
| 32 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fell | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Ralf | silent astonishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at first=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | enrapture | participle | the tales from Ilse's beautiful lips | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | Ralf | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | dream | to-infinitive | Ralf not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | fancy | infinitive | Ralf not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | fall | past | last | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=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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