Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 105
The finder almost lost his equilibrium, while Bergmann put his hand to his head to see if it stood in the right place. "
Who acts: finder, Bergmann, hand · What happens: lose, put, see, stand · To what, where: equilibrium, hand, right place
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finder, Bergmann, hand), 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 | 2 finder | det |
| 2 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 lost | advmod |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 equilibrium | nmod:poss |
| 6 | equilibrium | equilibrium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 9 | Bergmann | Bergmann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 put | nsubj |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 put | advcl |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 stood | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 see | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stood | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | the finder | finder's equilibrium | almost property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equilibrium=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | put | past | Bergmann | finder's hand | to finder's head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Bergmann not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | stand a condition, not said to happen | past | hand | the right place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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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