Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 55
As soon as the wooer took the object, it sprang open, and a frog, or a hornet, or bat flew into his hair or face, and in his fright he forgot to say, "_J'y pense!
Who acts: wooer, object, bat · What happens: take, spring, fly, forget, not say, fright · To what, where: object, hair, fright, J'y pense · 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 (wooer, object, bat), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 took | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wooer | det |
| 5 | wooer | wooer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 object | det |
| 8 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sprang | nsubj |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sprang | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 frog | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 frog | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 frog | det |
| 16 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hornet | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 hornet | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hornet | det |
| 20 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flew | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 flew | cc |
| 23 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | nsubj |
| 24 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 hair | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hair | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flew | obl |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 face | cc |
| 29 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hair | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 forgot | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 forgot | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 fright | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fright | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 forgot | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 forgot | nsubj |
| 36 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 say | mark |
| 38 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 forgot | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 pense | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 pense | punct |
| 41 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 pense | punct |
| 42 | J'y | J'y | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 pense | compound |
| 43 | pense | pense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 say | obj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the wooer | the object | a frog obl; a hornet obl; soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme | |||
| 2 | spring | past | object | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | bat | into bat's hair or face result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into hair=Result | ||||
| 4 | forget | past | bat | bat's fright | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | bat not said here | J'y pense | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pense=Topic | ||||
| 6 | fright | bat | nom fright «feeling transitive»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74323/13/55/