Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 22

The wanderer, when he hears the ghostly hunt, listens in terror to the barking of dogs, and hears the hu! hu! of the chase, and the uhu of the death-owl.

Who acts: wanderer · What happens: hear, listen · To what, where: ghostly hunt, uhu, hu hu

This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wanderer), 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 wanderer	det
2	wanderer	wanderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listens	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hears	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hears	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hears	nsubj
6	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wanderer	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hunt	det
8	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hunt	amod
9	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hears	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wanderer	punct
11	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 terror	case
13	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listens	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 barking	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 barking	det
16	barking	barking	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 terror	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 dogs	case
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 barking	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hears	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hears	cc
21	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 listens	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hu	det
23	hu	Hu	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 hu	compound
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 hu	punct
25	hu	Hu	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 hears	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 hu	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 chase	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 chase	det
29	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hu	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 uhu	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 uhu	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 uhu	det
33	uhu	uhu	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 listens	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 owl	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 owl	det
36	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 owl	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 death	punct
38	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 uhu	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 listens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	present	wanderer	the ghostly hunt		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hunt=Stimulus
2	listen	present	the wanderer	the uhu of the death owl	in terror to the barking of dogs	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in terror=Theme
3	hear	present	the wanderer not said here	hu hu of the chase		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hu=Stimulus

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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 22