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Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 44

Suddenly he resolved to carry off one of them, and when they had danced themselves weary and had thrown themselves down on the grass to rest, he rushed out of the wood, and, like a vulture, swooped down upon his prey.

Who acts: Arno, array, vulture · What happens: resolve, carry off, dance, throw down, rest, rush out · To what, where: one, array, grass, wood

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 (Arno, array, vulture), 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

advmodnsubjmarkxcompcompound:prtobjcasenmodpunctccadvmodnsubjauxconjobjxcompccauxconjobjcompound:prtcasedetoblmarkadvclpunctnsubjconjcasecasedetoblpunctccpunctcasedetnsubjpunctconjadvmodcasenmod:possoblpunctrootSuddenlyADVhePRONresolvedVERBtoPARTcarryVERBoffADPoneNUMofADPthemPRON,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheyPRONhadAUXdancedVERBthemselvesPRONwearyADJandCCONJhadAUXthrownVERBthemselvesPRONdownADPonADPtheDETgrassNOUNtoPARTrestVERB,PUNCThePRONrushedVERBoutADPofADPtheDETwoodNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTlikeADPaDETvultureNOUN,PUNCTswoopedVERBdownADVuponADPhisPRONpreyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SuddenlysuddenlyADV_3 resolvedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 resolvednsubj
3resolvedresolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 carrymark
5carrycarryVERBVerbForm=Inf3 resolvedxcomp
6offoffADP_5 carrycompound:prt
7oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 carryobj
8ofofADP_9 themcase
9themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs7 onenmod
10,,PUNCT_15 dancedpunct
11andandCCONJ_15 dancedcc
12whenwhenADVPronType=Int15 dancedadvmod
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 dancednsubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 dancedaux
15danceddanceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 resolvedconj
16themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes15 dancedobj
17wearywearyADJDegree=Pos15 dancedxcomp
18andandCCONJ_20 throwncc
19hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 thrownaux
20thrownthrowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part15 dancedconj
21themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes20 thrownobj
22downdownADP_20 throwncompound:prt
23ononADP_25 grasscase
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 grassdet
25grassgrassNOUNNumber=Sing20 thrownobl
26totoPART_27 restmark
27restrestVERBVerbForm=Inf20 thrownadvcl
28,,PUNCT_30 rushedpunct
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 rushednsubj
30rushedrushVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 resolvedconj
31outoutADP_34 woodcase
32ofofADP_34 woodcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 wooddet
34woodwoodNOUNNumber=Sing30 rushedobl
35,,PUNCT_42 swoopedpunct
36andandCCONJ_42 swoopedcc
37,,PUNCT_40 vulturepunct
38likelikeADP_40 vulturecase
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 vulturedet
40vulturevultureNOUNNumber=Sing42 swoopednsubj
41,,PUNCT_40 vulturepunct
42swoopedswoopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 resolvedconj
43downdownADV_42 swoopedadvmod
44uponuponADP_46 preycase
45hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs46 preynmod:poss
46preypreyNOUNNumber=Sing42 swoopedobl
47..PUNCT_3 resolvedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1resolvepastArnosuddenly propertytree rules
2carry offto-infinitiveArno not said hereone of arrayvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3dancepast · perfectarrayarrayweary propertyvn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
4throw downpast · perfectarray not said herearraythe grassvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on grass=Destination
5restto-infinitivearray not said herevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6rush outpastArnothe woodvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory
7swoop downpasta vultureupon Arno's prey; down propertytree rules

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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