Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 24
But after her death she disturbed them even more than in her lifetime, for at eleven every evening she poked her head through a hole in the church tower and _tooted_ dreadfully, and every morning at four she joined her voice in the matin-song.
Who acts: Kloster · What happens: disturb, poke, toot, join, die · To what, where: Tut, head, hole, voice, matin song
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 (Kloster), 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 | _ | 6 disturbed | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 death | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 death | nmod:poss |
| 4 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 disturbed | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 disturbed | nsubj |
| 6 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 disturbed | obj |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 disturbed | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 lifetime | case |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 lifetime | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lifetime | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 poked | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 eleven | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 eleven | case |
| 17 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 poked | obl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 poked | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 poked | nsubj |
| 21 | poked | poke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disturbed | parataxis |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 poked | obj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hole | det |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tooted | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 tower | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tower | det |
| 29 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tower | compound |
| 30 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hole | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 _ | cc |
| 32 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 tower | conj |
| 33 | tooted | toot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 poked | conj |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 tooted | punct |
| 35 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 33 tooted | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 joined | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 joined | cc |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 morning | det |
| 39 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 joined | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 four | case |
| 41 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 morning | nmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 joined | nsubj |
| 43 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 disturbed | conj |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 voice | nmod:poss |
| 45 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 joined | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 song | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 song | det |
| 48 | matin | matin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 song | compound |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 matin | punct |
| 50 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 joined | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 disturbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disturb | past | Kloster | Tut | after Kloster's death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | poke | past | Kloster | Kloster's head | evening | for eleven | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||
| 3 | toot | past | Kloster not said here | a hole in the church tower and _ | dreadfully property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Location | |||
| 4 | join | past | Kloster | Kloster's voice | the matin song | morning | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | ||
| 5 | die | Kloster | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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