Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 98
Breathless they fled back to the town, proclaiming the dreadful news with loud cries.
Who acts: lamentations · What happens: flee back, proclaim · To what, where: town, dreadful news
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 (lamentations), 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 | Breathless | breathless | CCONJ | _ | 3 fled | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 fled | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 proclaiming | punct |
| 9 | proclaiming | proclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fled | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 news | det |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 news | amod |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proclaiming | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cries | case |
| 14 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cries | amod |
| 15 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 proclaiming | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee back | past | lamentations = lamentation | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | proclaim | gerund | lamentations = lamentation not said here | the dreadful news | with loud cries | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme |
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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