Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 4
"No," replied the now visible form of the hunter, "I am a man like thyself, and stand before thee quite alone.
Who acts: visible form · What happens: reply, be, stand, form · To what, where: man, thee, hunter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (visible form), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 form | det |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 visible | advmod |
| 8 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 form | amod |
| 9 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hunter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hunter | det |
| 12 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 form | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 man | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 man | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 man | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 thyself | case |
| 20 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 18 man | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stand | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stand | cc |
| 23 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | advcl |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 thee | case |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 stand | obl |
| 26 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 27 alone | advmod |
| 27 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 stand | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the visible form of the hunter | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the visible form of the hunter = form | a man | like thyself | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stand in a quote | infinitive | the visible form of the hunter not said here | thee | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location | |||
| 4 | form | the hunter | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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