Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 96
The other maidens searched long in vain, till at last they caught sight of the fleeing robber with his booty.
Who acts: other maidens, Shouts · What happens: search, catch, flee, sight · To what, where: vain, sight, last, fleeing robber
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 (other maidens, Shouts), 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 | 3 maidens | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maidens | amod |
| 3 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 searched | nsubj |
| 4 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 searched | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vain | case |
| 7 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 searched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 caught | mark |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 caught | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 caught | nsubj |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 searched | parataxis |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 robber | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 robber | det |
| 17 | fleeing | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 robber | amod |
| 18 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sight | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 booty | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 booty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | the other maidens | vain | long property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in vain=Location | |||
| 2 | catch | past | Shouts = shout | sight of the fleeing robber | last | with Arno's booty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sight=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 3 | flee | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sight | the fleeing robber | nom sight «cognition 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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